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Health Divided: Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State - Hardcover

Sledge, Daniel

 
9780700624300: Health Divided: Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0700624309 ISBN 13: 9780700624300
Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 2017

Synopsis

The United States’ health care system stands out for its strict division of policies dealing with public health and individual medicine. Seeking to explain how this division came to be, what alternative paths might have been taken, and how this shapes the contemporary landscape, Daniel Sledge offers nothing less than a reinterpretation of the making of modern American health policy in Health Divided.

The vision of those who built the institutions that became the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was, we see here, far more expansive and innovative than has previously been realized―and it came surprisingly close to succeeding. Exploring the history behind its failure, and tracing the inextricable links between public health and national health policy, this book provides a valuable new perspective on the origins of America’s disjointed health care system.

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About the Author

Daniel Sledge is associate professor of political science at the University of Texas, Arlington.

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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0700624309
ISBN 13 
9780700624300
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304