American medicine and the public interest

American medicine and the public interest / Rosemary Stevens.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevens, Rosemary, 1935-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1971.
Subjects:
Medicine > United States.
Medicine > Specialties and specialists > United States.
Medical care > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART I The professional setting
  • From Colonial times to the Civil War : the first two hundred and fifty years
  • Egalitarianism in medicine and the challenge of specialism, 1860-1900
  • Reform achieved: the AMA and medical education, 1890-1914
  • PART II formal recognition of the specialties, 1900-1930
  • Surgeons, physicians, and general practitioners : the rebirth of the college system 1900-1916
  • Delineation of a specialty : Ophthalmology, Optometry, and the first special board
  • The American Medical Association and specialization
  • The public interest and the profession
  • The specialists and professional regulation
  • PART III The specialties come of age, 1930-1950
  • Medical specialization and medical care : prospects of organizational change
  • Who should control specialization?
  • Specialties and the specialty boards : the defining process
  • The boards as a system
  • Medical care in the 1940s
  • PART IV
  • Professional structures reexamined
  • Specialization and the general practitioner
  • Pressures for new specialty boards : a process of fragmentation
  • Professionalism and medical school
  • graduate education
  • PART V. The medical profession and medical care
  • Medicine and public voice : the financing of medical care
  • Shoring up the system : Medicare
  • Medicaid : promise and experience
  • The federal government and the health care system
  • American medicine and the public interest
  • Statistical appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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