Government and Public Health in AmericaEdward Elgar Publishing, 2008 M01 1 - 544 pages How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility for our health: the Public Health Servic |
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... enacting legislation licensing druggists in the last 15 years of the nine- teenth century.33 The sale and ... enacted legislation touching on every facet of social behavior and created administrative agencies to direct , often ...
... enacting legislation licensing druggists in the last 15 years of the nine- teenth century.33 The sale and ... enacted legislation touching on every facet of social behavior and created administrative agencies to direct , often ...
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... enacted mandatory national health-insurance schemes. Their seeming success encouraged American reformers to agitate ... enact a health-insurance bill, however, Congress was unsuccessful until the first session of the 89th Congress. After ...
... enacted mandatory national health-insurance schemes. Their seeming success encouraged American reformers to agitate ... enact a health-insurance bill, however, Congress was unsuccessful until the first session of the 89th Congress. After ...
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... enacted reorganizing the Marine Hospital Service with the aim of bringing to it some level of efficiency and uniformity. The position of Supervising Surgeon of the Marine Hospital Service was created with the authority to direct all ...
... enacted reorganizing the Marine Hospital Service with the aim of bringing to it some level of efficiency and uniformity. The position of Supervising Surgeon of the Marine Hospital Service was created with the authority to direct all ...
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... enact the Chamberlain - Kahn Act , which created an Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board39 to investigate the problem and ... enacted with a similar purpose . " 44 The Chamberlain - Kahn Act also provided that the Public Health Service ...
... enact the Chamberlain - Kahn Act , which created an Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board39 to investigate the problem and ... enacted with a similar purpose . " 44 The Chamberlain - Kahn Act also provided that the Public Health Service ...
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... enacted legislation in 1935 greatly augmenting the research funds at the disposal of the Public Health Service . Among the projects conducted by the PHS for which these federal funds were used was the noto- rious study of syphilis ...
... enacted legislation in 1935 greatly augmenting the research funds at the disposal of the Public Health Service . Among the projects conducted by the PHS for which these federal funds were used was the noto- rious study of syphilis ...
Contents
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The Food and Drug Administration | 103 |
The Veterans Administration | 271 |
The National Institutes of Health | 340 |
Medicare | 444 |
Index | 503 |
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Page 186 - That no additive shall be deemed to be safe if it is found to induce cancer when ingested by man or animal, or if it is found, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of food additives, to induce cancer in man or animal...
Page 133 - ... Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 'package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package or if...
Page 345 - The Public Health Service may study and investigate the diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage and the pollution either directly or indirectly of the navigable streams and lakes of the United States...
Page 454 - The American Public Welfare Association, and the National Association of Social Workers.
Page 133 - First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.
Page 250 - To the dispensing or distribution of any of the aforesaid drugs to a patient by a physician, dentist, or veterinary surgeon registered under this chapter in the course of his professional practice only...
Page 440 - The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease.
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