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Health Security for All
Alan Derickson
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Description for Health Security for All
Hardback. An innovative approach to one of the great unresolved social and political problems of our time, Health Security for All will be of interest to social scientists, health policy scholars, historians, and idealists across the political spectrum. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
This provocative work explores the invention and reinvention of a fundamental goal of American social policy-universal health care. In Health Security for All, Alan Derickson examines the emergence of diverse proposals for all-encompassing health reform since the early twentieth century. This study discovers not only a number of imaginative arguments for extending health services but also an unexpectedly wide array of passionate advocates for universalism. An innovative approach to one of the great unresolved social and political problems of our time, Health Security for All will be of interest to social scientists, health policy scholars, historians, and ... Read more
This provocative work explores the invention and reinvention of a fundamental goal of American social policy-universal health care. In Health Security for All, Alan Derickson examines the emergence of diverse proposals for all-encompassing health reform since the early twentieth century. This study discovers not only a number of imaginative arguments for extending health services but also an unexpectedly wide array of passionate advocates for universalism. An innovative approach to one of the great unresolved social and political problems of our time, Health Security for All will be of interest to social scientists, health policy scholars, historians, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801880810
SKU
V9780801880810
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About Alan Derickson
Alan Derickson is professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Reviews for Health Security for All
This book provides an intriguing recount of health care reform's storied and often tumultuous past.
Ronald T. Ackermann, MD, MPH Annals of Internal Medicine 2005 Required reading for those interested in the life and death of health policy initiatives... Valuable primer on health policy.
Eric G. Campbell, PhD JAMA 2005 Will surely resonate in the thoughts of policymakers... ... Read more
Ronald T. Ackermann, MD, MPH Annals of Internal Medicine 2005 Required reading for those interested in the life and death of health policy initiatives... Valuable primer on health policy.
Eric G. Campbell, PhD JAMA 2005 Will surely resonate in the thoughts of policymakers... ... Read more