Swenson, Peter A. <br/><br/>
Disorder :  a history of reform, reaction, and money in American medicine / 
Peter A. Swenson. 
 - xvii, 564 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> The American medical disorder --  Drug problems --  Public health and the body politic --  Schooling physicians --  Reactionary turn and beyond. 
<br/><br/> Meticulously tracing the dramatic conflicts both inside organized medicine and between the medical profession and the larger society over quality, equality, and economy in health care, Peter A. Swenson illuminates the history of American medical politics from the late nineteenth century to the present. This book chronicles the role of medical reformers in the progressive movement around the beginning of the twentieth century and the American Medical Association's dramatic turn to conservatism later. Addressing topics such as public health, medical education, pharmaceutical regulation, and health-care access, Swenson paints a disturbing picture of the entanglements of medicine, politics, and profit seeking that explain why the United States remains the only economically advanced democracy without universal health care. Swenson does, however, see a potentially brighter future as a vanguard of physicians push once again for progressive reforms and the adoption of inclusive, effective, and affordable practices. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0300257406 9780300257403 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2021932828 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBC1K7665  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>020423985  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical policy--United States.<br/>Medicine--Political aspects--United States.<br/>Health care reform--United States.<br/>Politique sanitaire--États-Unis.<br/>Médecine--Aspect politique--États-Unis.<br/>Services de santé--Réforme--États-Unis.<br/>Health care reform.<br/>Medical policy.<br/>Medicine--Political aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Duplicado 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.10973