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American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health 38.11 (1948): 1539-1550. online; Breslow, L., ed. Encyclopedia of Public Health (MacMillan, 2002). Bonner, Thomas N. The Kansas Doctor: A Century of Pioneering (Kansas UP, 1959) pp 120--171, argues Kansas was a national leader in public health in 1904-1923.
The Popular Health Movement of the 1830s–1850s was an aspect of Jacksonian-era politics and society in the United States. The movement promoted a rational skepticism toward claims of medical expertise that were based on personal authority , and encouraged ordinary people to understand the pragmatics of health care. [ 1 ]
Early industrial sickness insurance purchased through employers was one influential economic origin of the current American health care system. [13] These late-19th-century and early-20th-century sickness insurance schemes were generally inexpensive for workers: their small scale and local administration kept overhead low, and because the ...
Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, [1] [2] played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. [3] The cause became increasingly promoted by intellectuals of the Progressive Era. [4] [5]
In the Gilded Age (late 19th century), the parties were reluctant to involve the federal government too heavily in the private sector, except in the area of railroads and tariffs. In general, they accepted the concept of laissez-faire , a doctrine opposing government interference in the economy except to maintain law and order.
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era.
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The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health (1990) Grob, Gerald M. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America (2002) online; Johnston, Robert D., ed. The politics of healing: histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America (Routledge, 2004). Judd, Deborah, and Kathleen Sitzman.