Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Actors and Interpretations
7. Chapter 1. Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy 13
8. 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 32
9. Chapter 3. Medical Specialization as American Health Policy: Interweaving Public and Private Roles 49
10. Part II. Rhetoric, Rights, Responsibilities
11. Chapter 4. Patients or Health-Care Consumers? Why the History of Contested Terms Matters 83
12. Chapter 5. The Democratization of Privacy: Public-Health Surveillance and Changing Conceptions of Privacy in Twentieth-Century America 111
13. Chapter 6. Building a Toxic Environment: Historical Controversies over the Past and Future of Public Health 130
14. Part III. Priorities and Politics
15. Chapter 7. Situating Health Risks: An Opportunity for Disease-Prevention Policy 153
16. Chapter 8. The Jewel in the Federal Crown? History, Politics, and the National Institutes of Health 176
17. Chapter 9. A Marriage of Convenience: The Persistent and Changing Relationship between Long-Term Care and Medicaid 202
18. Part IV. Policy Management and Results
19. Chapter 10. Rhetoric, Realities, and the Plight of the Mentally Ill in America 229
20. Chapter 11. Emergency Rooms: The Reluctant Safety Net 250
21. Chapter 12. Policy Implications of Hospital System Failures: The Allegheny Bankruptcy 273
22. Chapter 13. The Rise and Decline of the HMO: A Chapter in U.S. Health-Policy History 309
23. Contributors 341
24. Index 345