Description
Book SynopsisMedicare 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
