New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration - Couverture rigide

Grey, Michael R.

 
9780801859397: New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0801859395 ISBN 13 : 9780801859397
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The Farm Security Administration was one of the several New Deal agencies whose collective purpose was to provide for Americans left indigent by the massive economic collapse of the 1930s. It helped low-income farmers, sharecroppers and migrant workers to form farming co-operatives, created model resettlement communities, and provided tenant farmers and sharecroppers with their own land. During the course of its rehabilitation programme, the FSA learned that as many as half of all loan defaults were due to ill health. In response, the agency began a medical programme. Physician and historian Michael Grey uses oral histories, archival records and medical journals to bring to light the diversity, reach and complexity of the medical care programmes of the Farm Security Administration. Grey's history examines the programmes from start to finish and finds that they were both a rehearsal for more modern forms of medical organization and a lightening rod for contemporary critics of "socialized medicine". Acknowledging the effect of changing demographics (doctors, nurses and farmers alike marched off to war) and economics, Grey contends that these factors do not fully explain the demise of the FSA experiment in health care. Rather, the political wind shifted at the same time that the medical profession acted to protect its authority over the practice of medicine.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael R. Grey is the director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program and associate dean for continuing education at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801859395
ISBN 13 
9780801859397
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780801869174: New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  080186917X ISBN 13 :  9780801869174
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
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