Government and Public Health in AmericaHow 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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Four years following the renaming of the Marine Hospital Service, in 1906, the administration of Theodore Roosevelt achieved one of its greatest legislative victories with passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drugs ...
Four years following the renaming of the Marine Hospital Service, in 1906, the administration of Theodore Roosevelt achieved one of its greatest legislative victories with passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drugs ...
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... its operating budget was almost $300 million, and it was charged with distributing over $800 million in grants.78 With passage of the Social Security Act in 1935, the role of the Public Health Service was once again expanded and it, ...
... its operating budget was almost $300 million, and it was charged with distributing over $800 million in grants.78 With passage of the Social Security Act in 1935, the role of the Public Health Service was once again expanded and it, ...
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... social workers rather than professional public health officials.85 The Children's Bureau, especially after passage of the Sheppard-Towner Act, remained a constant sore spot for the Public Health Service and its higher-ranking staff.
... social workers rather than professional public health officials.85 The Children's Bureau, especially after passage of the Sheppard-Towner Act, remained a constant sore spot for the Public Health Service and its higher-ranking staff.
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The costs were estimated at about $65 000 000 per year for some 65 000 entrants per year.121 This program quickly gained congressional backing and the result was the passage of the Nurse Training Act of 1943, creating the US Cadet Nurse ...
The costs were estimated at about $65 000 000 per year for some 65 000 entrants per year.121 This program quickly gained congressional backing and the result was the passage of the Nurse Training Act of 1943, creating the US Cadet Nurse ...
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Contents
| 1 | |
| 23 | |
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.
Page 182 - ... interstate commerce, shall be liable to be proceeded against while in interstate commerce, or at any time thereafter, on libel of information and condemned in any district court of...
Page 121 - Treasury as ex officio members, and of the Surgeon General of the Army, the Surgeon General of the Navy, and the...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Government and Public Health in America |
| Author | Ronald Hamowy |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1847204252, 9781847204257 |
| Length | 544 pages |
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