James A. Gillespie, Gillespie James a.

The Price of Health

Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910 1960

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of political conflict over health policy in Australia, providing background to an ongoing debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780521523226
• ISBN-10: 0521523222
• Artikelnr.: 21585363

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I. Medicine and the State: 1900 to 1939: 1. 'A game of animal grab', medical practice, 1920
39; 2. National hygiene and nationalization: the failure of a federal health policy, 1918
39; 3. Doctors, the states and interwar medical politics; 4. The defeat of national health insurance; Part II. The Reconstruction of Medicine? Planning and Politics, 1940 to 1949: 5. The BMA wins the War; 6. From 'Sales and service' to 'cash and carry': the planning of postwar reconstruction; 7. Paying the doctor: the BMA caught between salaried medicine and fee-for-service; 8. Relieving the patient, not the doctor: the Hospital Benefits Act; 9. A war of attrition: the fate of the pharmaceutical benefits scheme; 10. The limits of reform: the Chifley government and a national health service, 1945
9; Part III. The Public and the Private: 11. Private practice, publicly funded: the Page health service; 12. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.