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Autore: |
Hoffman Beatrix Rebecca
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Titolo: |
The wages of sickness : the politics of health insurance in progressive America / / Beatrix Hoffman
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Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina: | 368.38/2/00973 |
Soggetto topico: | Health insurance - United States - History - 20th century |
Progressivism (United States politics) | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The wages of sickness ![]() |
ISBN: | 979-88-908715-7-2 |
0-8078-6072-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824262003321 |
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