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Author Weisz, George, author

Title Chronic disease in the twentieth century : a history / George Weisz
Published Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages)
Contents "National vitality" and physical examination -- Expanding public health -- Almshouses, hospitals, and the sick poor -- New Deal politics and the National Health Survey -- Mobilizing against chronic illness at midcentury -- Long-term care -- Public health and prevention -- Health, wealth, and the state -- Alternative paths in the United Kingdom -- Maladies chroniques in France
Summary Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century challenges the conventional wisdom that the concept of chronic disease emerged because medicine's ability to cure infectious disease led to changing patterns of disease. Instead, it suggests, the concept was constructed and has evolved to serve a variety of political and social purposes. How and why the concept developed differently in the United States, an United Kingdom, and France are central concerns of this work. While an international consensus now exists, the different paths taken by these three countries continue to exert profound influence. This book seeks to explain why, among the innumerable problems faced by societies, some problems in some places become viewed as critical public issues that shape health policy. -- from back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-294) and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (Project MUSE platform, viewed October 20, 2014)
Subject Chronic diseases -- History -- 20th century
Medical policy -- History -- 20th century
Chronic diseases.
Medical policy.
Public health.
Chronic Disease
Health Policy
Public Health
Health Policy -- history
History, 20th Century
Public Health Practice -- history
public health.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Public health
Chronic diseases
Medical policy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781421413044
1421413043