History and Health Policy in the United States

Foreword by David Mechanic
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Rosemary A. Stevens

Part I: Actors and Interpretations
Chapter 1 - Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy by Charles E. Rosenberg
Chapter 2 - The More Things Stay the Same the More They Change: The Odd Interplay between Government and Ideology in the Recent Political History of the U.S. Health-Care System by Lawrence D. Brown
Chapter 3 - Medical Specialization as American Health Policy: Interweaving Public and Private Roles by Rosemary A. Stevens

Part II: Rhetoric, Rights, Responsibilities
Chapter 4 - Patients of Health-Care Consumers? Why the History of Contested Terms Matters by Nancy Tomes
Chapter 5 - The Democratization of Privacy: Public-Health Surveillance and Changing Conceptions of Privacy in Twentieth-Century America by Amy L. Fairchild
Chapter 6 - Building a Toxic Environment: Historical Controversies over the Past and Future of Public Health by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner

Part III: Priorities and Politics
Chapter 7 - Situating Health Risks: An Opportunity for Disease-Prevention Policy by Robert A. Aronowitz
Chapter 8 - The Jewel in the Federal Crown? History, Politics, and the National Institutes of Health by Robert Cook-Deegan and Michael McGeary
Chapter 9 - A Marriage of Convenience: The Persistent and Changing Relationship between Long-Term Care and Medicaid by Colleen M. Grogan

Part IV: Policy Management and Results
Chapter 10 - Rhetoric, Realities, and the Plight of the Mentally Ill in America by David Mechanic and Gerald N. Grob
Chapter 11 - Emergency Rooms: The Reluctant Safety Net by Beatrix Hoffman
Chapter 12 - Policy Implications of Hospital System Failures: The Allegheny Bankruptcy by Lawton R. Burns and Alexandra P. Burns
Chapter 13 - The Rise and Decline of the HMO: A Chapter in U.S. Health-Policy History by Bradford H. Gray

Contributors
Index