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Medicare is arguably Canada's most valued social program. As federally-supported medicare enters its second half-century, Medicare's Histories brings together leading social and health historians to reflect on the origins and evolution of medicare and the missed opportunities characterizing its past and present.

Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1 Chief Complaint: Physician Discontent with Canadian Medicare
  • Chapter 2 Medicine in the “Muskeg Metropolis:” Health Service Transformation in Canadian Resource Towns, 1960-1975
  • Chapter 3 From Health Care Policy to Professional Politics: Medicare and Allied Health Professionals in Quebec, 1960-1990
  • Chapter 4 Did Medicare Make Nursing Work Invisible?
  • Chapter 5 “One foot on each side of the border:” Dr Frederick Dodge Mott, Rural Health, and “Socialized” Medical Care in the United States and Canada, 1930s-1970s
  • Chapter 6 What Was Socialized Medicine? Revisiting the Radical Pre-History of Medicare
  • Chapter 7 Medicare vs. Medicine Chest: Court Challenges and Treaty Rights to Health Care
  • Chapter 8 Mental Health and Medicare: Who Cares?
  • Chapter 9 Medicare and Maternity: Historicizing Inequities in Women’s Health
  • Chapter 10 Becoming Not a Stranger: Home care for rural elders in the age of Medicare
  • Chapter 11 Medicare in Canada from a Disability Rights Perspective, Ontario c. 1975-1990
  • Chapter 12 Prevention or Cure: The Contested History of Public Health and Medicare, 1960-2018
  • Chapter 13 Medicare Unfinished: Pharmacare and Denticare

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    A Paperback by Esyllt W. Jones, James Hanley, Delia Gavrus

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      Publisher: MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press
      Publication Date: 5/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780887552809, 978-0887552809
      ISBN10: 0887552803
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Medicare is arguably Canada's most valued social program. As federally-supported medicare enters its second half-century, Medicare's Histories brings together leading social and health historians to reflect on the origins and evolution of medicare and the missed opportunities characterizing its past and present.

      Table of Contents
      • Chapter 1 Chief Complaint: Physician Discontent with Canadian Medicare
      • Chapter 2 Medicine in the “Muskeg Metropolis:” Health Service Transformation in Canadian Resource Towns, 1960-1975
      • Chapter 3 From Health Care Policy to Professional Politics: Medicare and Allied Health Professionals in Quebec, 1960-1990
      • Chapter 4 Did Medicare Make Nursing Work Invisible?
      • Chapter 5 “One foot on each side of the border:” Dr Frederick Dodge Mott, Rural Health, and “Socialized” Medical Care in the United States and Canada, 1930s-1970s
      • Chapter 6 What Was Socialized Medicine? Revisiting the Radical Pre-History of Medicare
      • Chapter 7 Medicare vs. Medicine Chest: Court Challenges and Treaty Rights to Health Care
      • Chapter 8 Mental Health and Medicare: Who Cares?
      • Chapter 9 Medicare and Maternity: Historicizing Inequities in Women’s Health
      • Chapter 10 Becoming Not a Stranger: Home care for rural elders in the age of Medicare
      • Chapter 11 Medicare in Canada from a Disability Rights Perspective, Ontario c. 1975-1990
      • Chapter 12 Prevention or Cure: The Contested History of Public Health and Medicare, 1960-2018
      • Chapter 13 Medicare Unfinished: Pharmacare and Denticare

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