INDEX


AALL, see American Association for Labor Legislation

AAMC, see Association of American Medical Colleges

abortion and legal rights, 391

access to medical care, 56–59, 63–71, 124–27, 172–74, 181–84, 244–46, 262, 270, 333–34, 350, 362–74, 387–89, 417, 421–22, 448

accommodation, contradictions of, 383–88; pattern of, 27–28, 229–31; politics of, 374–78; triumph of, 290–334

acetanilid, 130

Ackerknecht, Erwin, 135

Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 130, 131, 133

advertising: of medical plans, 324; of patent medicines, 127–34; of physicians, 92

Advisory Board for Medical Specialties (American Board of Medical Specialties), 357

AHA, see American Hospital Association,

Aiken, George, 285

Alford, Robert, 264, 488–89n94

allopathic medicine, labeling of, 100

almshouses, 73, 149–51, 160, 172, 465n9

Altmeyer, Arthur, 277, 279, 281

AMA, see American Medical Association

American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL), 243–48, 251, 252, 254, 277, 280

American Association for Social Security, 267, 280

American Bar Association, 283

American Board of Medical Specialties (Advisory Board for Medical Specialties), 357

American Cancer Society, 343

American College of Hospital Administrators, 178

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 392

American College of Physicians, 268

American College of Surgeons, 167, 177, 222, 268, 272, 274

American Federation of Labor, 203, 249–52, 255, 285

American Hospital Association (AHA), 178, 283, 296–98, 309, 348, 349, 367, 390, 398, 402, 430; Council on Community Relations and Administrative Practice, 296

American Institute of Homeopathy, 101

American League for Public Medicine, 274

American Medical Association: as bargaining agent, 427; and conservatives, 419, 423; and corporate practice, 204–5, 215–20, 299–302, 324–27, 445–46; Council on Medical Education, 117–19, 121, 167, 224, 272; Council on Medical Education and Hospitals, 167, 357; Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, 131–33; early development, 90, 91, 94, 98–101, 105, 107, 112, 120; and economic depression, 271–72, 276–77; and group practice, 211–15; and HMOs, 304–6, 323–27, 397–98; and hospital appointments, 168; House of Delegates, 109, 252–53, 269, 273, 276, 282, 306, 327, 347; and industrial physicians, 203; and insurance, governmental, 247–48, 252–53, 255, 255–65, 268, 271–89, 368, 369, 370, 378; and insurance, private, 299–300, 306–9, 313, 323, 331; intern listing of, 124; Judicial Council, 136, 271; on lodge practice, 208; on medical cooperatives, 304–5; and medical schools, 90–91, 117–18, 121, 360; and medication, 128–34; Medicredit national health plan, 398; membership levels in, 109, 110, 273, 398, 427; and muckrakers, 129–32, 140; research grants of, 339; and specialization, 357; and supply of physicians, 125–27, 272, 347; surveys cited, 82, 118, 142, 211–15, 221–22, 369, 423

American Medical Eclectic College, 106

American Medical International, 430, 432, 435

American Medicine and the People’s Health (Moore), 262

American Psychiatric Association, 345

American Public Health Association (APHA), 185, 277, 382

American Rehabilitation Foundation, 395

American Society for the Control of Cancer, 342

American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 222

Anderson, Odin, 296

Andrews, John, 247, 280

anesthesia, 156, 221; and insurance, 299; see also anesthesiology

anesthesiology, 221; and nurse anesthetists, 221, 223

antibiotics, 232, 335, 339

antipoverty programs, 366–67; see also access to medical care, Great Society

antisepsis, 156, 157

antitrust laws and medicine, 305, 327, 418

APHA, see American Public Health Association

apothecaries: 37–39, 45, 78

appendectomy, 68–69

Apple, Rima, 134

apprenticeship, medical, 40, 63, 82, 89, 114

Arendt, Hannah, 9

Arnold, Thurman, 305

Arrow, Kenneth, 225–27

aseptic techniques, 156

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), 115, 407

Association of American Physicians, 91

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, 407

Association of Hospital Superintendents, 178

Astor, John Jacob, 153

atabrine, 341

authority: definition of, 9, 13; elements of, 9–13; struggle for, 17–20; types of, 13–16

authority, professional: challenges to, 17–18, 30–35, 44–59, 80–81, 88, 105, 127–28, 304, 379–81, 389–93, 402; in definition of needs, 13, 18–19, 263–64; distinctive elements of, 12–13, 15–16; and the division of labor, 155, 220–25; in hospitals, 20, 162–69; in prescription of drugs, 20, 27, 127–34; relation to science, 3–6, 16–19, 54–59, 134–40, 142; requirements for, 37, 80; support for, 18–19, 35–37, 106, 112–16, 119–21, 129–31, 138–44, 263–64, 335–37; see also autonomy

automobile and medical services, 69–71

autonomy: defense of, by physicians, 24–29, 77–78, 164–65, 204–6, 208–9, 292, 299–307, 318, 320, 325–27, 332–33, 351; lack of, among paramedical workers, 221–22; see also authority, professional

autopsy, 177, 222; historical practice of, 55

bacteriology, 137–39, 181–91, 464n156; and surgery, 135–36

Baltimore City Hospitals, 150

Baltimore County Almshouse, 150

Bartlett, Josiah, 83

Baruch, Bernard, 285

Baylor University Hospital Plan, 295, 299, 301, 302

Beach, Wooster, 96

Bellevue Hospital, 150, 155

Bennett, Wallace, 400

Beveridge insurance plan, 280

Bierring, Walter, 272

Bigelow, Henry, 114, 123

Bigelow, Jacob, 55

Bigelows (family), 89

Biggs, Hermann M., 185, 186, 195

Billings, John Shaw, 90

bill of rights, economic, 280

Biologics Control Act, 340, 342

Bismarck, 235, 239, 256, 257

blacks: in hospitals, 158, 173, 175, 350; in medical profession, 48, 124, 167–68; use of services, 373

Blendon, Roger J., 410

bloodletting, 34, 42, 56, 94

blood pressure, measurement of, 137

Blue Cross, 294–98, 307–10, 322, 327, 330, 367, 413, 439: administrative expenses in, 328, 333; charges of, 309; and commercial insurance companies, 311, 312, 327–31; coverage of, 313–14; emergence of, 295–98; enabling legislation for, 297; enrollment of, 298, 311, 327–28; and Medicare, 375; reimbursements of, 385, 387, 388; see also Blue Shield

Blue Shield, 294, 306–10, 385; administrative costs of, 328; and Blue Cross, 308–9; competitiveness of, 328–31; and compulsory insurance, 325; enabling legislation for, 306; income ceilings in, 307, 314; and Medicare, 375; see also Blue Cross

Blumberg, Mark, 386

boards of health, 36, 184–89, 196–97

bonesetters, 49

Boston City Hospital, 173

Bok, Edward, 129, 130

Bornemeier, Walter, 398

Boston Dispensary, 247

Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 65, 164

Boston University, 99

botanic doctors, 45, 51–54, 57–58, 96, 229; see also Eclectics; herbal medicine

Bradley Polytechnic Institute, 341

Brandeis University, 176

breast-feeding, 139, 140

Bridgeport Hospital, 158

British Medical Association, 256

Brown, E. Richard, 227, 228

Brown, Rexwald, 214

Brown, Montague, 437

Buchan, William, 32–35, 37

Bulletin Number Four (Flexner), 119–21

Burdett, Henry, 164

Bureau of Chemistry, 131, 339

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 246, 259, 312

Burnham, John, 192n

burnout, professional, 423

Burton, Harold H., 348

Bush, Vannevar, 341–43, 347

Business Roundtable, 444

Business Week, 381

Butler, Lewis H., 394, 395

Cabot, Richard, 174

Califano, Joseph A., 412, 414, 415, 418

California Medical Association (CMA), 272, 282, 283, 307

California Physicians Service (CPS), 307, 330

Canada, universal insurance in, 412

cancer, 340, 392; federal emphasis on, 370; research, 343

capitalism: and medical care, 16–17, 215–32, 428–49; ideological function of medicine for, 462n103; and scientific medicine, 227–28; see also corporate control of medical care; employers; insurance, health (governmental)

capitation payment, 247, 398; see also contract practice; health maintenance organizations

Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, 397

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 118, 119

Carter, Jimmy, 411–14, 418

Carter, Richard, 347

Case Western (Western Reserve), 355

Cathell, D. W., 85–88, 107

Catholics and hospitals, 173–75

CCMC, see Committee on the Costs of Medical Care

certificate-of-need programs, 398, 414, 416, 426

certification, specialty, development of, 224, 356–58

Chamber of Commerce, 283, 286

Chandler, Alfred, 148, 441

Chapin, Charles V., 189–91

Chapmans (family), 89

Chicago Medical Society, 194, 203

Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, 391

childbirth: feminist approach to, 391–92; growth of medical control over, 49–50, 223; see also obstetrics

children: child health centers, 260; in hospitals, 158–59; and public health, 187–89, 191; see also infants

Children’s Bureau, 275, 283, 289

Children’s Hospital, 158

chiropractors, 127, 229, 333; independence of, 223

cholera, 36; organism isolated in, 137; vaccine for, 138

Christian Science, 95, 105, 108, 127, 229, 253, 255

cinchona (quinine), 47

CIO, see Congress of Industrial Organizations

Civil War, 200

Clapesattle, Helen, 210

clinics, public health, 187–89, 191–97; see also health centers; group practice

CMA, see California Medical Association

coal industry, medical care in, 315–20

collective bargaining and health care, 204, 310–20

collective mobility, 17, 79–80, 143–44

Collier’s Weekly, 130

Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 361

Columbia University, 243, 361

Commission on Hospital Care, 349

Commission on Industrial Relations, 248

Committee for Economic Development, 396

Committee for National Health Insurance, 382, 404

Committee for the Nation’s Health, 280, 286, 287

Committee of One Hundred on National Health, 135–36

Committee of Physicians for the Improvement of Medicine, 274, 275

Committee on Economic Security, 267–69, 275, 276

Committee on Hospital Service, 297

Committee on Medical Research, 340

Committee on the Costs of Medical Care (CCMC), 142, 261–67, 275, 295, 299, 348, 373, 383

Commons, John R., 243, 252, 311

Commonwealth Fund, 348

communication technology and medical services, 65–71

community health centers; see health centers

community mental health centers, 365–66

Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, 422

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 304, 312

Connecticut Medical Society, 98

conservatism, 423; and assimilation of reform, 393–405; changing perspectives of, on medical care, 418–19

contract practice, 63, 198, 204–9, 248, 301–2

cooperatives, medical, 302–6, 321; legal status of, 306, 324

coronary bypass operations, 386

corporate control of medical care, 8, 16, 25–27, 110–11, 164–65, 198–232, 290–334, 420–49; professional resistance to, 25–27, 110–11, 164–65, 198–232, 299–301, 306, 324–27, 445–46; via group practice, 209–15; via HMOs, 301–6, 396–97, 439–42; via holding companies, 437–38; via hospitals, 164–65, 430–38, 446–47; via industrial employers, 110–11, 200–6; via insurers, 291–92, 301–6, 325–27

corporate liberalism, 488–89n94

corporate rationalists, 264

costs of medical care, 66–71, 236, 245–46, 380–88; committee on, 261–66; control of, 393–404; effects of insurance on, 298, 309–10, 319, 334, 364; effects of monopoly on, 143; effects of new forms of transportation on, 66–71; estimates of, 245–46, 254n, 258–60, 262, 281, 335, 380, 384, 412; in fraternal lodges, 208; in hospitals, 160, 172, 260, 384, 433–34; and medical education, 64, 126; and public health, 189, 228

CPS, see California Physicians Service

Crisis in Hospital Finance, The (Davis and Rorem), 296

cultural authority, definition of, 13–15; see also authority

Dakin, Edward, 108

Dartmouth College, 64, 82

Davis, Karen, 372, 410

Davis, Michael M., 183, 194, 213, 247, 259–61, 280, 285, 286, 296, 299

DDT, 335

death benefits, 242, 244, 252, 258

Debakey Commission (Presidential Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke), 370

deinstitutionalization, 365, 391

Delafield, Francis, 91

Democratic Party, 254, 286; and Carter administration, 411; and compulsory insurance, 285, 286; and economic growth, 366; and Great Society, 367; and Nixon administration, 394

democratization of medical service, 246; see also access to medical care

Denmark, insurance in, 237

dentists, independence of, 223

Dent v. West Virginia, 106, 226

Department of Agriculture, 339, 340

Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), 371, 372, 375, 393–95, 399, 400, 404, 406–8, 412, 414

Department of Labor, 275

dependence: and agrarian life, 32; and authority, 9–13, 20; and hospitals, 20; mechanisms of, 20–21; and power, 4

Depression, Great, and health insurance, 266, 270–79, 295, 331

de Tocqueville, Alexis, 7, 31

Deutsch, Albert, 345

Dextri-Maltose, 134

diagnosis: errors in, 87; importance of, and private group practice, 210–11, 213; instruments for, 136–37; physician responsibility for, 136–37, 221–22; and public health, 196; tests for, 188

dialysis, 442–43; clinics for, 445, 448; cost and extent of, 442–43

Dingell, John, 280

diphtheria, 230; antitoxin for, 138, 139; organism isolated in, 137; pseudo-, 185–86; and public health, 185–87

Directory of Medical Specialists, 357

dispensaries, public, 181–84, 232, 469n6

division of labor and professionalism, 25–26, 37–40, 47–50, 76–78, 85, 133, 141–42, 149, 155–56, 163, 177–78, 195, 209–11, 216–18, 220–25, 236, 354, 355–59, 383, 424, 426; see also paramedical workers; specialization

doctor-patient relationship, 9–21, 85–88, 136–37, 157–60, 217; as basis of professional power, 217, 222–23; authority in, 5, 9–12, 38, 85–88, 141–42; change in, 22–24, 41–42, 75–76, 136–37, 157–60, 362, 389, 424; class differences in, 12, 172, 183, 362; corruption of, 317; democratic view of, 42, 56, 389; etiquette of, 94; in Europe and America, 80–81; in homeopathy, 97; in hospitals, 20, 157–60, 164, 172; legal aspects of, 62–63, 106; Parsonian model of, 21n, 74–75; prejudice in, 174; rights in, 389–92; variation in, by type of practice, 362

doctors, see physicians

domestic medicine, 32–37, 39, 65–67

Domestic Medicine (Buchan), 32–34, 452n4

Domestic Medicine (Gunn), 34, 452n8

Douglas, Paul, 269

Drake, Daniel, 46, 47, 93

Drew, Elizabeth, 370

drugs: botanic, 48, 51–52; home preparation of, 32, 34; homeopathic, 96–97; patent medicines, 127–33; physician control of, 20, 27, 87, 127–34; regulation of, 131–34, 403; skepticism of, 34, 55; see also pharmacy

Dryden, John F., 242

Dubos, René, 339

Duff, Raymond, 359, 361

Duffy, John, 188

Duke University, 418

Easley, Ralph, 251

Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, 93

Eclectics, 54, 96, 102; and licensing, 106–9; numbers of, 99, 127

ecology of medical practice, 65–71

Economic Stabilization Program, 423

Eddy, Mary Baker, 108

education, medical, see apprenticeship; internship, hospital; medical schools; residency, hospital

Ehrlich, Paul, 135

Ehrlichman, John, 394

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 363, 366

electrocardiograph, 137

Eliot, Charles, 112–15, 123, 218

Eliot, Martha, 275

Elizabethan Prayer Book, 35

Ellwein, Linda, 426

Ellwood, Paul M., 395, 426

Ely, Richard, 243

emergency room services, sharing of, 438

emergicenters, 439, 443–44

employers: as sponsors at medical programs, 200–6, 235, 294, 301–2, 309, 311–17, 320, 333; demand for cost control, 383, 388, 444; view of compulsory insurance, 228, 250–1, 256–57, 287

engineering, preventive, 228

England: health insurance in, 237, 239–40, 280; hospitals in, 74, 151, 154; medical profession in, 6, 37–40, 61, 65, 78, 117, 224; national health service in, 337; religion and medicine in, 35–37

Enthoven, Alain, 418

epidemics, 36, 151, 184–85, 189, 340, 346

Epstein, Abraham, 267, 280

equity and competition, 329–30, 418–19

ether, 157

ethics, professional, 15, 91, 94, 98, 107, 118, 128–29, 164, 216–17, 225–26

ethnicity: and hospitals, 167, 168, 170–74; and professional status, 89, 96, 167

Ewing, Oscar, 284

experience rating, 329, 330

Fairview Community Hospitals, 432

faith healing, 35–36, 95, 127; see also Christian Science

Falk, I. S., 258, 275, 284

family: and hospitals, 73–75, 149, 151–52, 158–59; and medical care, 22, 32, 36–37; size and structure of, changes in, 73–75; see also domestic medicine

farmers, cooperative medical prepayment plans for, 271, 304, 321

Farm Security Administration (FSA), 271, 304, 321

Feder, Judith, 375

Federal Home Loan Bank, 305

Federal Security Agency, 284, 342

Federal Trade Commission, 418

Federation of State Medical Boards, 120–21

fee, physicians’, 61–63, 84, 110–11, 136, 154, 157, 163–64, 205, 206, 208, 221, 358, 385–86

fee-for-service compensation, 25–26, 226, 247, 323–25, 383, 385, 398, 422, 425; see also capitation; contract practice; fee, physicians’

fee-splitting, 136, 167

Feldstein, Martin S., 384

feminism, 391–92; see also women

Ferguson, Homer, 284

Field, Stephen, 106

Finch, Robert, 395

Fishbein, Morris, 276, 305

Fisher, Irving, 135, 136, 245–46

Flexner, Abraham, 118–21, 123–26, 131, 224, 230, 355

Flexner, Simon, 118, 122

Flint, Austin, 184

folk medicine, 47–51, 392; see also domestic medicine; herbal medicine

Forand, Aime, 368

Ford, Gerald, 406, 412

foreign medical graduates, 39, 82, 272, 360, 427

Fortune, 288, 336, 381, 393, 436

Forum, The, 182

Fox, Renée, 74, 75

France: health insurance in, 237, 239; medical schools in, 42; mental hospitals in, 73; physicians in, 6, 65, 117; scientific development in, 54–55, 78

Frankel, Lee K., 252

fraternal organizations, medical care for, 206–9, 242; see also lodge practice

Freidson, Eliot, 20, 495n72

French Revolution and medicine, 54, 73

Freud, Sigmund, 345

Friedman, Lawrence, 103

Friedman, Milton, 143, 270, 418

FSA, see Farm Security Administration

Fuchs, Victor, 409

fumigation, 190

funeral benefits, see death benefits

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 206, 373

Gallup poll, 270, 273, 288

game theory, 424

gamma globulin, 341

Garbarino, Joseph, 324, 334

Garceau, Oliver, 273

Garfield, Sidney, 301, 321

Gates, Frederick, 228

Gaylin, Willard, 390

Geiger, H. Jack, 371

General Education Board, 121, 123, 126

Germany: as educational model, 113–14; insurance in, 237, 239–40, 243, 256; as political symbol, 253, 287, 341

Gerster, Arpad, 80, 88, 165–66

GHA, see Group Health Association

GI Bill, 357

Gibson, Count D., 371

Gilman, Daniel Coit, 112, 113

Glaser, William, 168, 176

GMENAC, see Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee

Goffman, Erving, 86, 409

Goldberger, Joseph, 340

Goldsmith, Jeff, 425

Goldwater, Barry, 366

Goldwater, S. S., 160, 172

Gompers, Samuel, 249, 251, 252, 475n39

Goudsblom, Johan, 175

government, role of: changes in, 62–63, 104–7, 180–97, 238–40, 338, 363–74, 377–78, 380, 383, 393; in financing, 62, 121–22, 147, 150, 171–73, 270–71, 338–51, 363–78, 383–88; in regulation of drugs, 131; in regulation of health plans, 297–98, 306, 395–96; in regulation of medical care, 57–58, 104–7, 351, 398–407; see also hospitals; insurance, health (governmental); Medicaid; Medicare

Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC), 422

Graham, Sylvester, 50

Great Britain, see England

Great Society, 366–67, 369–74, 394, 396

Green, Frederick R., 247, 248

Green, William, 250

Griffiths, Martha W., 394

Grob, Gerald, 73

Gross, Samuel, 80

Group Health Association (GHA), 305, 357

Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, 321, 324–26

group practice, 199, 209–15, 217, 247–48, 318, 425

group practice, prepaid, 301–6, 318, 319–20, 320–27

guilds, craft, 24, 223

Gunn, John C., 34

Guthrie, Donald, 211

gynecology: certification in, 357; self-care in, 391

Hahnemann, Samuel, 96, 97, 100, 101, 108

Hall, Lyman, 83

Hall, Oswald, 167, 168, 174

Hamilton, Alice, 203

Hamilton, Walton, 261, 265, 267

Harrington, Michael, 373

Harvard University, 30, 46, 55, 82, 112, 114–16, 119, 123, 125, 151, 174, 218, 485n46

Havighurst, Clark, 418

Hawker v. New York, 106

health centers, 194–97, 370–72, 448, 470n28; see also community mental health centers; dispensaries

health insurance: see insurance

Health Insurance Plan (HIP) of Greater New York, 322, 324–26

health maintenance organizations (HMOs), 27; and corporate development, 428–30, 439–46; enrollment in, 415; federal program, 396–98, 400–1, 406–8; loan guarantees for, 396, 401; name introduced, 395, 397; and supply of physicians, 424–27; see also capitation payment; contract practice; group practice, prepaid; independent practice associations

Health Manpower Act, 397

health planning, 348–50, 376–77, 401–3, 431, 449

Health Research Group, 400

Health Security plan, 394, 404

health systems agencies (HSAs), 402, 403, 415, 416, 419, 444

herbal medicine, 32, 52, 96, 227; see also botanic doctors; Eclectics

HEW, see Department of Health, Education and Welfare

Hill, Lister, 285, 348

Hill-Burton program (Hospital Survey and Construction Act), 283, 348–51, 371, 373, 375–77, 389, 401

HIP, see Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York

Hippocrates, 419

Hippocratic texts, 38

Hirshfield, Daniel, 310

HMOs, see health maintenance organizations

Hobbes, Thomas, 13

Hodgson, Godfrey, 364

Hoffman, Frederick L., 252

Hofstadter, Richard, 110

holistic medicine, 227, 392

Hollingshead, August, 359, 361

Holloway, S. W. F., 78

Holmes, Bayard, 164

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 30, 56, 140

homeopathic medicine, 47, 96–102, 106–9, 127, 229; and allopaths, 100; and capitalism, 227; extent of, 127; and licensing, 101, 102, 107, 108; in municipal hospitals, 102; organizational split within, 101; post-Civil War popularity of, 99

Hopkins, Harry, 267

Hospital Corporation of America, 430, 432

Hospital Planning Council of Greater New York, 376

hospitals, 25–27, 72–76, 145–79, 217–20, 259–60, 295–98, 347–51, 375–76, 430–39; architecture of, 147, 149, 159; as bureaucratic organizations, 148–49, 159–60, 177–79, 446–47; and Catholics, 173–75; control of, 146, 147–49, 152–54, 161–69, 173, 177–79, 219–20, 231, 299, 349, 359–62; and corporate development, 148–49, 428–38, 446–47; cost escalation of, 160, 259–60, 298, 319, 368, 383–88, 412, 414; emergence of modern form of, 147–62; and ethnicity, 167–68, 170–77; financing of, 160–62, 176–79, 348–51 (see insurance); hygiene in, 75, 154–57; and insurance, 291–302, 327–34, 368–69, 384–85; integration of system of, 147, 176–79, 429–36, 440; and Jews, 154, 168, 173–76; and medical schools, 116, 145–46, 152, 348, 353, 360–62; for mental illness, 72–73, 345–46, 365; number of, 73, 169, 430, 440; and nurses, 155–56; and physicians, 26, 27, 72, 111, 145–46, 152, 161–69, 178–79, 220–22, 353, 360–62, 385–86, 403; proprietary, 157, 165, 170–71, 219–20, 428–40; and Protestants, 175, 176; public and private, relation of, 147, 150–51, 171–73, 289, 387, 436, 448; regulation of, governmental, 349–51, 398–400, 401–4, 406–7, 412, 414–15; regulation of, nongovernmental, 167, 177, 222, 431–32; and surgery, 156–58, 170; teaching and nonteaching, competition between, 426–27; and urbanization, 72–75

Hospital Service Plan Commission, 297–98

Hospital Survey and Construction Act, see Hill-Burton program

House of Burgesses, Virginia, fee controls of, 62

house staff, see internship, hospital; residency, hospital

Howard Medical School, 124

How to Avoid Infection (Chapin), 190

HSAs, see health systems agencies

Hughes, Everett, 23

Humana, Inc., 431, 432, 436, 446

Hurd, Henry, 184

Hutchinson, John, 137

hygiene: in hospitals, 75, 154–57; industrial, 200–3, 228; infant, 192, 260; personal, 135, 138, 141, 180, 190, 191, 260, 261, 263; public, 135–36, 180–97

ideology, political: and compulsory insurance, 255–56, 287–88; conservative, 417–19; Jacksonian, 56–59; liberal, 61, 105–6, 261–66, 337, 363–67, 382, 488–89n94; populist, 19, 105, 302–4; progressive, 19, 110, 129–30, 140, 192, 243–46

Illich, Ivan, 409, 410

Illinois Insurance Commission, 245, 254, 294

Illinois Social Hygiene League, 194

immunization, 135, 138

income and medical care, 259–60, 262, 270, 309–310, 350, 366–78, 469n6; and cost escalation, 384–85; see also access to medical care

indemnity benefits, 291–94, 307, 309, 322, 327, 329, 331, 440

independent practice associations (IPAs), 397, 413

Indian medicine (American), 48–49

industrial medicine, 200–6, 315–18

infants: feeding of, 139–40; formulas for, 133–34; hygiene for, 192; mortality rates, 260, 382, 410; see also children

insanity: confinement for, 28; and mental hospitals, 72–74; see also psychiatry

insurance, health (governmental), 8, 235–89, 368–70, 382, 396–98, 404–5; businessmen’s view of, 228, 250–52, 256–57, 283, 287–88; campaigns for, 243–54, 275–78, 280–85, 368–69, 382, 404–5; failure to pass, 252–57, 267–69, 277–79, 413–14; origins in Europe, 237–40; and physicians, 235–36, 246–48, 252–53, 255–57, 265–88, 368–69, 398; program for seamen, 62, 240; proposals, AMA, 369, 398; proposals, Kennedy, 382, 394, 404–5, 412–14; proposals, Nixon, 285, 397, 404–5; proposals, Progressive, 244–49; proposal, Truman, 280–86

insurance, health (private): basic types, 291–94; distribution, 298, 309–310, 327–28, 333–34, 417; early development, 200–9, 241–42, 294–95; and experience rating, 329, 330; financial risks in, 291; fraud in, 241–42; and hospitals, 295–302, 327–34, 368–69, 384–85; indemnity benefits in, 291–94, 307, 309, 327, 329, 331; and moral hazard, 290–91, 298; and physician autonomy, 26, 27, 204–6, 208–9, 292, 299–307, 318, 320, 325–27, 332–33; self-insurance, 329; service benefits in, 291–94, 296–98, 306–8, 315, 318–19, 330; and unions, 235, 241, 249–50, 310–20, 324, 330, 334; see also Blue Cross; Blue Shield; group practice, prepaid; health maintenance organizations

Interdepartmental Committee to Coordinate Health and Welfare Activities, 275, 276

international comparisons: of health, 382; of health insurance, development of, 237–43, 256–57, 286–87, 331–32, 412; of hospitals, 147, 149–50, 155, 168, 175; of medical profession, 6, 37–39, 41, 60, 61, 65, 77–78, 80–81, 90; of medical research, 341; of psychiatry, 345; of public health, 184, 186; of women in medicine, 117

internships, hospital, 123, 124, 360; and professional autonomy, 220–21; standards for, 167, 168

IPAs, see independent practice associations

Irish and hospitals, 173

Italy, insurance in, 237

Jackson, Andrew, 36, 57

Jackson, James, 151

Jacksons (family), 89

James, William, 105

Janowitz, Morris, 344

Javits, Jacob, 285

Jefferson Medical College, 115, 218, 219

Jeffries, B. Joy, 88

Jews: discriminated against, 168, 173–74; and hospitals, 154, 173–76; mutual societies of, 207–9

Jewson, N. D., 38, 39

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 184

Johns Hopkins University, 112, 113, 115–18, 120, 122, 123, 146, 361

Johnson, Lyndon, 366, 367, 369

Jones, Barbara, 263

Jones, Lewis, 263

Journal of the American Medical Association, 70, 85, 110, 129, 131, 134, 164, 213, 265, 274, 283

Julius Rosenwald Fund, 297

Jungle, The (Sinclair), 131

Kaiser, Henry J., 301, 321, 322

Kaiser-Permanente health plan, 322–27, 332, 383, 395, 415, 432, 439, 447

Kellogg Foundation, 348

Kendall, Patricia, 353, 355

Kennedy, Edward M., 371, 382, 394, 395, 401, 404, 405, 412–14

Kennedy, John F., 363–66, 369

Kennedy-Mills plan, 404

Kerr, Robert, 368

Kerr-Mills program, 368, 369

Kett, Joseph, 49, 99

Keynesian economics, 266–67, 394

King County Medical Society, 321, 324

Kinyoun, Joseph J., 340

Knowles, John, 409

Koch, Robert, 128, 135, 138, 187

Kuhn, Adam, 41

Kulp, C. A., 298

Kuznets, Simon, 143, 270

labor, see unions

Labor Department, 406

Labor Health Institute, 320

Ladies’ Home Journal, 129, 130

laetrile, 392

La Guardia, Fiorello, 322

Lambert, Alexander, 247, 248

Larson, Leonard, 327

Larson, Magali Sarfatti, 22

laryngoscope, 136, 137

Lasch, Christopher, 141, 142

Lasker, Albert, 286

Lasker, Mary, 342, 343, 346, 386

Lee, Roger I., 263

Lee, Russell, 212

Lerner, Gerda, 50

Leuchtenberg, William, 278

Lewin and Associates, 433

Lewis, John L., 315–17

liberalism: classical, 61, 238–40; contemporary, 335–38, 363–67, 381–83, 388–90; corporate, 251, 488–89n94; and professional authority, 337; and public investment in science, 338–47; reaction against, 380, 417–19; see also ideology, political

licensing, 20, 22, 24, 27, 28, 226; historical development of, 40, 44–45, 50, 54, 57–58, 102–7; and supply of physicians, 118–19, 126, 230

Life Extension Institute, 193

Lincoln, Abraham, 98

Lincoln Hospital, 158

Lippard, Vernon, 352, 354

Lister, Joseph, 155, 156

Lloyd George, David, 239, 243, 256, 257

lobelia inflata (Indian tobacco), 51

lodge practice, 206–9

Long, Russell, 396, 405

Loos, H. Clifford, 301

MacIntyre, Duncan, 298

magic, 35–36, 52

Mahoney, Florence, 342

malpractice suits, 62, 111, 389, 445, 461n84

Mannheim, Karl, 56

March of Dimes, 343, 346

Marglin, Stephen, 216

Marine Hospital Service, 184, 240, 340; see also insurance, health (governmental); Public Health Service

market forces: before Civil War, 61–64; belief in, 418–419; definition of, 23; and professional autonomy, 77–78; professional control of, 24–28, 125–27, 133–34, 181–89, 194–97, 198–232, 300; relation to professional authority 22–24; see also corporate control of medical care; costs of medical care

Martin, Franklin, 272

Marxism, 16–17, 216, 227–29, 239, 462n103

Masons, 57

Massachusetts General Hospital, 150, 156, 157, 164, 173, 174

Massachusetts Medical Society, 46, 98, 111

maternity benefits, 244

Mather, Cotton, 39, 48

Mathews, George S., 207

Mayo, Charles, 156, 175, 210–13

Mayo Clinic, 210–11, 213, 248

Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 211

Mayo, William, 156, 157, 175, 210–13

Mayo, William Worrall, 70, 210

McClellans (family), 89

Medicaid, 369–70; cap on federal support of, 419; and community health centers, 372; and corporate development, 428, 435–36; and cost escalation, 381–87, 406; cutbacks in, 422; and HMOs, 395; and hospital costs, 385; impact on public sector, 377; and minority health care, 373; and nursing homes, 445; and peer review, 399–400; and states, 398; stigma in, 370; see also Medicare

medical centers, 361–62

Medical Committee for Human Rights, 398

medical economics, see access to medical care; contract practice; corporate control of medical care; costs of medical care; division of labor; fee, physicians’; group practice; insurance, health; physicians

Medical Economics, 423

medical education, see apprenticeship; internship, hospital; medical schools; residency, hospital

medical-industrial complex, 428, 429

Medical Nemesis (Illich), 409

medical practice, see doctor-patient relationship; physicians

Medical Record, 163, 182

medical research, development of, 54–56, 115–16, 189–90, 338–47

medical schools, 40–44, 112–23, 352–55, 358–62; admissions requirements of, 43, 114–15, 121; admission of women into, 50, 117, 124, 391; curriculum of, 43, 113–14, 354–55; federal aid to, 352, 365, 397, 421; full-time positions in, 122–23, 352–53; homeopathic, 97, 100; and hospitals, 42, 116, 353, 360–62; numbers of, 42, 112, 118, 121, 272, 421; origins of, 38, 40–44; proproprietary, 218–20; reform of, 112–23; and specialization, 355–56; struggles for control of, 93–94, 114, 123; and universities, 122; and VA medical staff, 348

medical societies: early development of, 40, 44–46, 90–92; exclusion of dissidents by, 97–98, 208, 303–5, 324; as gatekeepers to hospital appointments, 168; growth in power of, 109–12; insurance plans established by, 205, 306–7, 324; liberal tendencies in, 272–75, 398; see also American Medical Association

Medical Society of New Jersey, 40, 83

Medicare, 368–70, 375–78; and Blue Cross, 375; and Blue Shield, 375; and corporate development, 434, 436; and cost escalation, 381–87, 406; and HMOs, 395; and nursing homes, 445; political support for, 286, 364, 367–70, 378; and poverty, 373–74; and peer review, 399–400; see also Medicaid

Meharry Medical School, 124

Menninger, Charles F., 211

Menninger, William, 344, 345

mental hospitals, 72–75, 169, 365

mergers, hospital, 430, 433

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 193, 242, 252, 262, 294, 328, 339

Michigan State Medical Association, 110

microscope, 136

midwives, 333; historical status of, 45, 49–50, 85, 87; nurses as, 223; and obstetricians, 223; recent revival of, 391–92

military medicine: in Civil War, 99, 154; in Revolutionary War, 93, 151; in Spanish-American War and World War I, 141; in Vietnam War, 484n25; in World War II, 335–36, 344–45

Mill, John Stuart, 75

Miller, Perry, 56

Millerites, 95

Mills, Wilbur, 368, 369, 404, 405

miners’ medical care, 201, 315–20

Minots (family), 89

Mitchell, S. Weir, 82

Modern Healthcare, 430, 493n26

Mommsen, Theodor, 14

Moore, Harry H., 262

moral hazard in insurance, 290–91

Morgan, John, 41, 44, 54, 93

Mt. Sinai Hospital, 153, 174

Moynihan, Daniel, 367

muckrakers, 129, 140

multihospital systems, 429–36

Munts, Raymond, 312

Murray, James, 280, 283

Nader, Ralph, 400

National Academy of Sciences, 338n, 342

National Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, 192

National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, 191

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), 250

National Board of Health, 185, 240

National Bureau of Economic Research, 143, 209

National Cancer Institute, 340

National Civic Federation (NCF), 251, 252, 257, 288

National Conference on Economic Security, 268

National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 343, 346, 348

National Grange, 283

National Health Assembly, 284

National Health Conference, 276, 277, 279

National Health Council, 193

national health insurance, see insurance, health (governmental)

National Health Planning Advisory Council, 402

National Health Planning and Resource Development Act, 402

National Heart Institute, 343

National Hospital Record, 165

National Industrial Conference Board, 250

National Institutes of Health (NIH), 340, 342–47, 351, 352, 363; budget of, 343, 347

National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), 311, 312

National Medical Care, Inc., 443

National Mental Health Act, 346

National Research Council, 338n

National Science Foundation, 341–43

National Tuberculosis Association, 191, 339

nature-trusting heresy, 56

Nestlè, 134, 135

Netherlands, insurance in, 237

New and Nonofficial Remedies (AMA Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry), 131

New Deal, 204, 266–81, 310, 311, 367

New England Journal of Medicine, 386, 429

New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 63

New England Medical College, 50

New Guide to Health (Thomson), 51

New York Academy of Medicine, 90, 161

New York Almshouse, 150

New York City Health Department, 185–88

New York County Medical Society, 187, 195

New York Daily Tribune, 84

New York Evening Star, 56

New York Hospital, 150

New York State Medical Society, 58, 90–91, 101–2

New York Times, The, 100, 266

Nightingale, Florence, 154, 155, 159

NIH, see National Institutes of Health

Nixon, Richard, 285, 381, 393, 394, 396, 397, 399, 404, 405, 407, 415, 418, 423

Northwest Kidney Center, 443

Norway, insurance in, 237

Notes on Hospitals (Nightingale), 159

Numbers, Ronald L., 253

nurses: as anesthetists, 221, 223; and consumers, 416; division among, 225; and hospitals, 155–56; as midwives, 223; professionalization, 155–56; and public health, 180, 188; undersupply of, 364

nursing homes: chains of, 438–39; and corporate development, 428, 429; and Medicaid, 445; and mental hospitalization, 365

nutrition, 139–40, 191, 263, 410

obstetrics, 30; certification in, 356; and division of labor, 225; historical aspects of, 45, 49–50; and midwives, 223

occupational disease, 243

OEO, see Office of Economic Opportunity

Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), 370, 371

Office of Management and Budget, 419, 440

Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), 340, 341

Olson, Mancur, 92

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 409

ophthalmology, 224; certification in, 356; and optometrists, 223

ophthalmoscope, 136, 137

optometry: independence of, 223

Oregon State Medical Society, 205

Osler, William, 116, 122, 184

osteopathy, 108, 127, 223

otolaryngology, certification in, 356

Oxford, 38, 122

Palo Alto Clinic, 212

paramedical workers, professionalization of, 221–23; see also division of labor; midwives; nurses

Pareto optimality, 227

Park, William H., 185, 186

Parsons, Talcott, 21n, 74, 75, 160

Pasteur, Louis, 128, 135, 138

pathology, 54–55, 116, 210, 222–23

Patient’s Bill of Rights, 390

Pearl, Raymond, 125

pediatrics, 139–41, 192; and division of labor, 225

pellagra, 340

penicillin, 335, 339, 341

Pennsylvania Hospital, 150, 152, 154, 159

People’s Common Sense Medical Advisor (Pierce), 133

Peppers (family), 89

Perkins, Frances, 267–69

Perlman, Selig, 249

Perrow, Charles, 178

persuasion, 9–11

pesthouses, 151

Peters, John, 274

Petersdorf, Robert G., 352

Petty, William, 229

pharmacy, 127–34; development of and communications, 69–70; and medical education, 41; and physicians, 65, 85; see also drugs

Philadelphia General Hospital, 150

philanthropy, 121–23, 227–28; and hospitals, 153; and medical research, 338–39, 342–43, 346

Physician Himself, The (Cathell), 85–87

physicians: compensation of, 6, 62–64, 66–68, 84–85, 111, 136, 142–43, 163, 206, 208, 215, 226, 248, 270, 318, 354, 358, 385–87; geographic distribution of, 64, 125–26, 201–3, 363, 424; and hospitals, 26, 27, 72, 111, 145–46, 152, 161–69, 178–79, 220–22, 353, 360–62, 385–86, 403; in politics, 83; relations among, 21, 27, 39, 80, 93–112, 162–64, 183–84, 209–18, 271–75, 303–6, 353–54, 362–63, 425–27, 447; social position of, 4–7, 37–40, 54, 81–92, 141–44; supply of, 40, 64, 99, 117, 125–26, 162, 272, 420–27; women as, 50–51, 117, 124, 391, 423, 427, 446; see also American Medical Association; authority, professional; doctor-patient relationship; fee, physicians’

Physicians’ Protective League of New York, 208

physiomedicals, 99

physiotherapy, 438

Pierce, Franklin, 240

Pierce, R.V., 133

Pinel, Philippe, 73

Pinkham, Lydia, 128, 130

Pinkham company, 132

plague, vaccine for, 138

pneumonia, 335

Poen, Monty, 287

Polanyi, Karl, 61, 144

polio, crusade against, 346–47

pollution, environmental, 189–90, 410

polycorporate enterprise, 437, 441

Populism, 19; and cooperatives, 302; and licensing, 105

poverty: cycle of, 366; extent of, 373–74; mass and minority, 373; see also access to medical care

power: and dependency, 4, 11–12; economic, and authority, 21–24, structural, 377; see also authority

prepaid health plans, see group practice, prepaid; health maintenance organizations

Presbyterian Hospital, 161, 361

prescription of drugs, 27

Presidential Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke (Debakey Commission), 370

President’s Council on Wage and Price Stability, 406

preventive medicine, 135, 196–97

Price, Don, 351

price controls, 62, 406

prices, see costs of medical care; fee, physicians’

Primitive Physic (Wesley), 33

product differentiation, 92

professions: authority of, 12–13; definition of, 15; and division of labor, 220; economic power of, 21–24; rise of, 3, 17, 39–40, 58, 110, 144; see also authority, professional; physicians

Professional Standard Review Organizations (PSRO), 400, 402–4, 406, 407, 414, 416, 419, 444, 447

Progressivism: divisions in, 251, 254; and health insurance, 243–57; history of, 244, 254; and medical authority, 19, 129–32, 140–42; and social control, 192n; and status revolution, 110–11

Progressive Party, 248

proletarianization of medicine, 446

proprietary drugs, 128–29

Protestants, 35; and hospitals, 175, 176

Prudential Insurance Company, 242, 252, 328, 439

PSRO, see Professional Standard Review Organizations

psychiatry: community, 365; criticism of, 409; emergence of profession, 73, 345–46; and medical education, 355; in military, 344–45; popular faith in, 345; private practice in, 72, 345

psychoanalysis, 345

psychological testing, 344

psychosurgery, 390

public health, 28, 180–97; and bacteriology, 135, 185–91; and costs, 189; definition of, 180; federal role in, 184–55, 240; government departments for, 184–89; and health centers, 194–97; and health insurance, 247; and nurses, 180, 188; and private practice, 181–89; regional differences in, 185; and schools, 187–89

Public Health Service, 132, 240, 246, 275, 283, 289, 340, 342, 346, 349; see also Marine Hospital Service

Pure Food and Drug Act, 131

Pusey, William Allen, 126

quarantines, public, 185, 189

quinine, 47, 340

rabies, vaccine for, 135, 138, 186

Radam, William, 128

radiology, 221, 299

railroads, impact on medical practice of, 69; medical programs of, 201–2

Ransdell Act, 340

Reader, W. J., 90

Reading Hospital, 152

Reagan, Ronald, 374, 380, 396, 414, 418, 419, 443

Reed, Louis, 308, 309

Reformation, Protestant, 35

Regional Medical Programs, 370, 401

Reiser, Stanley J., 136, 137

religion: and cultural authority of medicine, 17, 33, 35–36, 95, 105, 108; and hospitals, 145–46, 149, 153, 158, 169–77

Relman, Arnold S., 429

Report on National Vitality (Fisher), 135

Republican Party, 243; and Carter administration, 411; and compulsory insurance, 282–85

Resettlement Administration, 271

residency, hospital, 220–21, 358–60; origins of, 116; see also internship, hospital

Reuther, Walter, 382

Richardson, Elliot, 395, 396, 407

Richmond, Mary, 183

rights of patients, 388–93

Rimlinger, Gaston, 238

Rivlin, Alice, 405

Roche, Josephine, 275, 317

Rockefeller, John D., 339

Rockefeller, Nelson, 396

Rockefeller Foundation, 348, 409

Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 118, 339

Rockefeller Medicine Men (Brown), 227, 228

Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 340

Roe, Benson, 386

Roemer, Milton, 364

Roemer’s Law, 399

Rogers, David E., 410

Rome, ancient, physicians in, 6

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 266–69, 275, 277–80, 340, 341, 347

Roosevelt, Theodore, 243, 254

Roper poll, 288

Rorem, C. Rufus, 212, 213–15, 296–99

Rosen, George, 149

Rosenberg, Charles, 36

Rosenkrantz, Barbara, 196

Rosenwalds (family), 286

Rosner, David, 167

Ross, Donald, 301, 302

Ross-Loos Clinic, 301, 302, 304

Rotch, Thomas Morgan, 139, 140

Roth, Russell, 402

Rothman, David, 149, 390

Rothman, Sheila, 260

Roux, Emile, 186

Royal College of Physicians, 33, 38, 46

Rubinow, I. M., 245–47, 249, 253, 254

Rumsfeld, Donald, 396

Rush, Benjamin, 42, 52, 56, 65, 83, 93, 151, 154

St. Luke’s Hospital, 153

St. Mary’s Hospital, 175

Salk, Jonas, 346, 347

salvarsan, 138

Sammons, James, 427, 445, 446

San Joaquin Medical Care Foundation, 397

Scheele, Leonard, 343

Schmidt, Louis, 194

Schoen, Cathy, 372, 410

Scholten, Catherine, 49, 50

school health programs, 187–89

Schumpeter, Joseph, 229

Schweiker, Richard, 419

science: and professional authority, 3–6, 16–19, 54–59, 134–40, 142; public investment in, 338–47; symbolic value of, 336

screening, 188, 192–95, 200

Seager, Henry R., 243

Sears, John, 443

Sears, Roebuck Co., 203

secret societies, 455n63

sects, medical, 93–112, 127; convergence in, 99–102; and licensing, 101–12, 127; relation to religious sects, 95

selective incentives, 92

Selvin, Hanan C., 355

Senate Finance Committee, 269, 396

Serbia, insurance in, 237

service benefits, see insurance, health (private)

Seward, William, 98

sexuality, relation of medicine to, 28, 337

Shadid, Michael, 303, 304

Shain, Max, 364

Shame of the States, The (Deutsch), 345

Shattuck, Lemuel, 84

Sheppard-Towner Act, 260–61

Sherman Antitrust Act, 305

Sherman, P. Tecumseh, 252

Shils, Edward, 351

Shippen, William, Jr., 49, 93

Shrady, George, 182

Shryock, Richard, 55

sick role, 21n, 160; see also doctor-patient relationship

Sigerist, Henry, 149

Silverberg, Samuel, 208, 209

Simmons, George H., 247

Simon, William, 406

Sims, J. Marion, 82, 84

Sinclair, Upton, 131

Sisters of Charity of Houston, 432

Sisters of Mercy Health Corporation, 432

sliding fees, 225–26, 308

smallpox, 47, 138, 188

Smith, Adam, 76, 216, 419

Smith, Alfred E., 254

Smith, Stephen, 185

Snakepit, The, 345

Social Darwinism, 105

socialism, 239, 240–41, 243, 245, 247, 248, 249

socialized medicine, see insurance, health (governmental); socialism

social medicine, 55; see also dispensaries; health centers; public health

Social Security, 204, 250, 266–70, 311, 365, 394, 396, 399; public opinion of, 278–81

Social Security Act, 269, 276, 278, 285, 342; legislative history of, 267–70

Social Security Administration (SSA), 375

Social Security Board, 269, 275, 277, 279

societies, medical, see medical societies

Soviet Union, physicians in, 6

specialization, medical, 223–25; 355–59; and competition, 76–77; entry restrictions, 223–24; and private group practice, 212–13; and hospitals, 163, 358; and interdependence of physicians, 18, 111; and medical education, 224, 355–57; numbers of physicians in, 358–59; overspecialization, 382

Spencer, Herbert, 105

spirometer, 136, 137

Stage, Sarah, 128

Stanford University, 355

Starkweather, David, 433, 435, 440

State Health Planning and Development Agencies (SHPDAs), 402

Statewide Health Coordinating Councils (SHCCs), 402

stethoscope, 136

Stevens, Rosemary, 221, 224, 357

Still, Andrew, 108

Still, James, 48

Stockman, David, 414, 419, 440

streptomycin, 339

Strong, George Templeton, 153

sulfonamides, 335

Sullivan, Mark, 130

Surgeon General, 185, 343

surgery: historical status of, 37–39, 41, 78, 156–57; and hospitals, 156–58, 170, 171; income from, 136, 358, 386; industrial, 200–2; insurance for, 327–28; progress in, 135–36, 156–57, 210–11, 335; second opinions for, 205

Sweden, insurance in, 237, 377

Swedenborgians, 95

Switzerland: insurance in, 237

Sydenstricker, Edgar, 246, 265, 267, 268

syphilis, see venereal disease

Szasz, Thomas, 409

Taft, Robert, 283, 284, 313, 349

Taft-Hartley Act, 313–14, 316, 317

Taylor, Frederick, 200

Technical Committee on Medical Care, 275–77

technology, medical: costs of, 384; diagnostic, 136–37, 210–11; effects of, 16; laboratory, 221–22

telegraph and medical services, 69

telephone and medical services, 69–71

temperature, measurement of, 137

tetanus, 135, 138, 186, 335

Thayer, W. S., 183

Theory of the Labor Movement (Perl-man), 249

therapeutic nihilism (skepticism), 55–56, 246, 408–11

therapeutic relentlessness, 390

Thomas, Keith, 35

Thomson, Samuel, 51–54

Thomsonians, 51–54, 56, 57, 95, 96, 99

Thomsonian Recorder, 52

Thorazine, 365

Thornton, Matthew, 83

Time magazine, 336

Toner, J. M., 99

Townsend, Francis, 266–67, 278

trachoma, 188

tranquilizers, 365

transportation, effects on medical care of, 65–71, 110

Treasury Department, 275, 342

Truman, Harry, 280–86, 289, 313, 316

trustees of hospitals, 152–54, 161, 178–79

Tryon, Rolla, 66

tuberculosis: organism isolated in, 137; and public health, 187, 191, 193, 197

Tufts University, 371

Tuke, William, 73

typhoid, 335; organism isolated in, 137; prevention of, 135, 138, 464n146; and public hygiene, 135, 186

UAW, see United Auto Workers

UMWA, see United Mine Workers of America

unemployment insurance, 243, 249, 266, 267, 269, 278

unions, labor, 8, 24; and benefit programs, 209, 241, 310–20, 333–34; and compulsory health insurance, 249–51, 286, 382, 404; and cooperatives, 304; and employee medical programs, 202–3, 310–26

United Auto Workers (UAW), 315, 382

United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), 315–19, 325

United Rubber Workers, 319

University of Michigan, 100, 141, 347

University of Minnesota, 211

University of Pennsylvania, 41, 42, 115, 122, 123, 125

University of Wisconsin, 243

Unwin, George, 223

urbanization, 69; and hospitals, 72–74, 155

VA, see Veterans Administration

Vanderbilt University, 123

Vaughan, Victor C, 141

Veneman, John G., 393, 395

venereal disease, 135, 137, 192, 335; clinics for, 194, 197

Veterans Administration, 283, 289, 348, 351, 357–58

Vogel, Morris, 74, 158

voluntarism: and health insurance, 241, 265–66, 282, 334; and hospitals, 150–54, 436–39; and medical research, 346–47

Waddington, Ivan, 65

wage-price controls, 394

Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act), 311, 312

Wagner, Robert F., 277, 280, 313, 350

Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill, 280

Waksman, Selman, 339

Wallace, Henry, 284

Walsh, Mary, 50

War Labor Board, 311

Warner, Andrew, 183

Warren, B. S., 246

Warren, Earl, 282, 283

Warren, John C., 151

Warrens (family), 89

Washington Business Group on Health, 444

Washington University, 123

Wasserman test, 137

Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 76

Weber, Max, 13, 95, 148, 450n6

Weinberger, Caspar, 404, 407

Welch, William, 116, 118, 122

Weltmerism, 105

Wesley, John, 33–34, 49

West, Olin, 262

Western Reserve (Case Western), 355

Whitaker & Baxter, 282, 285

White, William, 222

Wilbur, Ray Lyman, 261, 264, 266, 307

Wildavsky, Aaron, 409

Wilson, Louis B., 210

Wilson, Woodrow, 243, 248

Winslow, C.-E. A., 180, 190, 196, 261

witchcraft, 35

Witte, Edwin, 267–69

women: admission of to medical schools, 50, 96, 117, 124, 391; appeal of patent medicines to, 128; as lay practitioners, 32, 39, 49–51; in division of labor, 221; male physician view of, 87, 124; membership in AMA, 427; role in reforming hospitals, 155; see also midwives; nurses

Wyatt v. Stickney, 389

Wylie, W. Gill, 151

X-rays, 136, 137, 156, 195, 210, 221, 223

Yale University, 82, 123, 180, 274, 352, 359

yellow fever, 93, 184–85, 335

Yordy, Karl, 381–82

Young, James Harvey, 128