{"product_id":"doctors-and-reformers-jonathan-w-engel-9781570034114","title":"Doctors and Reformers: Discussion and Debate Over Health Policy, 1925-1950","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA look at public and private debate over the formation of the world's best medical care system\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Engel traces the policy debates over healthcare delivery, and the ways of paying for it, that were conducted during the second quarter of the twentieth century in the United States. Examining the views advanced by doctors, including those unallied with the American Medical Association's position, as well as by reformers--academics, public health officers, philanthropists, foundation executives, and independent scholars--Engel displays how the discussion involved much more than the legislative efforts of New Deal Democrats regarding health insurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder discussion were group care, industrial health plans, nationalized hospitals, and public dispensaries. Engel's attention to the letters and other writings of some of the key participants in the debates enriches his account, with the papers of Morris Fishbein, the president of the AMA, Michael Davis, a researcher for the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, and I. S. Falk, the research director for the Social Security Administration, adding concrete detail. His investigation demonstrates that physicians' reactions to legislative remedies were not monolithic. It also shows that foundation leaders were instrumental in enlisting organized labor, farmers, and liberal legislators in the improvement of the world's best medical care, and that the discussion was much broader than a debate between political foes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngel draws a vivid picture of the differences between Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's degree of commitment to advancements in the policy area. Participants in the debates discovered no simple solution to the challenges they explored, however, and their positions above all foreshadow the debate of succeeding decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Engel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570034117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570034114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.18d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2002 pg. 661","brand":"Jonathan Engel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939689332991,"sku":"9781570034114","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_69fcb225-2335-4c11-87a8-ab19ac2447e9.jpg?v=1681442939","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/doctors-and-reformers-jonathan-w-engel-9781570034114","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}