The wages of sickness : the politics of health insurance in progressive America / / Beatrix Hoffman
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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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in social medicine.