Health Divided: Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State by DanielSledge. Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2017. 304 pp. $24.95.

2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 596-598
Author(s):  
Michael K. Gusmano
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Individual Medicine ◽  
American State

Administering Entitlement: Governance, Public Health Care, and the Early American State

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (03) ◽  
pp. 627-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gautham Rao
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
National Authority ◽  
Us History ◽  
Early American ◽  
Merchant Mariners ◽  
American State

This article explores the federal marine hospitals of the early republic, the first public health care system in US history. Beginning in 1798, the federal government collected twenty cents per month from mariners' wages and used this revenue to subsidize medical care for sick and disabled merchant mariners. Previous studies have traced links between marine hospitals and modern public policy. By studying governance from the bottom up, this article takes a different approach. I argue that jurists, physicians, and officials' regulation of sailors' entitlement to public health care facilitated and reflected a transformation of national authority. Between 1798 and 1816, sailors' entitlement was a local matter, based on the traditional paternalist understandings of maritime laborers as social dependents. By 1836, though, the federal Treasury redefined entitlement around a newly calculus of productivity: only the productive were entitled to care at the marine hospitals. This story about governance, federal law, and political economy in the early United States suggests that the early American state was a more vibrant participant in the market and society than has been previously understood.

Public Health and Newborn Hearing Screening

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Terrey Oliver Penn ◽  
Susan E. Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Hearing Screening ◽  
Newborn Hearing Screening ◽  
Newborn Hearing
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