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UNINA9910780364603321 |
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Autore |
Hoffman Beatrix |
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Titolo |
The wages of sickness [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of health insurance in progressive America |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2001 |
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979-88-908715-7-2 |
0-8078-6072-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Studies in Social Medicine |
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Health insurance |
Insurance, Health |
Progressivism (United States politics) |
Business |
Social Science |
Health insurance - History - 20th century - United States |
Politics |
Social Conditions |
History, 20th Century |
Socioeconomic Factors |
History, Modern 1601- |
Sociology |
Insurance |
Social Sciences |
Population Characteristics |
Financing, Organized |
History |
Economics |
Humanities |
Health Care |
Health Care Economics and Organizations |
Health Insurance and Medicare Legislation - U.S |
Law - U.S |
Law, Politics & Government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Patchwork Protection: The Specter of Sickness and Poverty; 2. Crafting a Solution to the Sickness Problem: The American Association for Labor Legislation; 3. A Dose of Prussianism: European Origins and American Identities; 4. The Worst Insult to the Greatest Profession: Medical Practitioners and Health Insurance; 5. Moneyed Interests: Employers and Insurance Companies Against Compulsory Health Insurance; 6. The House of Labor Divided; 7. Insuring Maternity: Women's Politics and the Campaign for Health Insurance |
8. The Politics of DefeatEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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From 1915 to 1920, Progressive reformers led a spirited but unsuccessful crusade for compulsory health insurance in New York State. Beatrix Hoffman shows that this first health insurance campaign was a crucial moment in the creation of the American welfare state and health care system. |
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UNINA9910791679103321 |
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Autore |
Wolf Joan B. |
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Titolo |
Is Breast Best? : Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood / / Joan B. Wolf |
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New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Public Opinion |
Politics |
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice |
Breast Feeding |
Breastfeeding - Social aspects |
Breastfeeding - Government policy - United States |
Breastfeeding |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-230) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 2. The Science -- 3. Minding Your Own (Risky) Business -- 4. From the Womb to the Breast -- 5. Scaring Mothers -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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Since the invention of dextri-maltose and the subsequent rise of Similac in the early twentieth century, parents with access to clean drinking water have had a safe alternative to breast-milk. Use of formula spiked between the 1950's and 1970's, with some reports showing that nearly 75 percent of the population relied on commercial formula to at least supplement a breastfeeding routine. So how is it that most of those bottle-fed babies grew up to believe that breast, and only breast, is best? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding. Despite the fact that breastfeeding has become the ultimate expression of maternal dedication, Wolf writes, the conviction that breastfeeding provides babies unique health benefits and that formula |
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feeding is a risky substitute is unsubstantiated by the evidence. In accessible prose, Wolf argues that a public obsession with health and what she calls “total motherhood” has made breastfeeding a cause célèbre, and that public discussions of breastfeeding say more about infatuation with personal responsibility and perfect mothering in America than they do about the concrete benefits of the breast. Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? Parsing the rhetoric of expert advice, including the recent National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign, and rigorously questioning the scientific evidence, Wolf uncovers a path by which a mother can feel informed and confident about how best to feed her thriving infant—whether flourishing by breast or by bottle. |
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