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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... regarded these as of little or no value. Certainly this aspect of homeopathy's therapeutic regimen accounted for its immediate and increasing popularity after its introduction in the United States in 1825. Regular physicians reacted ...
... regarded these as of little or no value. Certainly this aspect of homeopathy's therapeutic regimen accounted for its immediate and increasing popularity after its introduction in the United States in 1825. Regular physicians reacted ...
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... regarded surgery only as a last resort , and believed the cures could be effected by ' correcting the mechanical imbalances within and between the structures of the body ' . In 1892 Still founded the American School of Osteopathy at ...
... regarded surgery only as a last resort , and believed the cures could be effected by ' correcting the mechanical imbalances within and between the structures of the body ' . In 1892 Still founded the American School of Osteopathy at ...
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... regarded as local health concerns . In that year , however , a calamitous yellow fever epidemic struck New Orleans and raged up the Mississippi Valley and this goaded the legislature into establishing a National Board of Health , with ...
... regarded as local health concerns . In that year , however , a calamitous yellow fever epidemic struck New Orleans and raged up the Mississippi Valley and this goaded the legislature into establishing a National Board of Health , with ...
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... regarded them as no less than ridiculous.54 Table 1.2 gives some notion of the growth in hospital and dispensary treatments provided by the Public Health Service between 1917 and 1921. Despite the problems it faced in trying to cope ...
... regarded them as no less than ridiculous.54 Table 1.2 gives some notion of the growth in hospital and dispensary treatments provided by the Public Health Service between 1917 and 1921. Despite the problems it faced in trying to cope ...
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... regarded the expansion as unnec- essary and a waste of taxpayer resources and was able to prevail upon the President to veto the bill in May of that year . 62 Not all legislation whose goal was the expansion of the Public Health Service ...
... regarded the expansion as unnec- essary and a waste of taxpayer resources and was able to prevail upon the President to veto the bill in May of that year . 62 Not all legislation whose goal was the expansion of the Public Health Service ...
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...
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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...
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