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OverviewMedicare is arguably Canada’s most valued social program. As federally-supported medicare enters its second half-century, Medicare’s Histories brings together leading social and health historians to reflect on the origins and evolution of medicare and the missed opportunities characterizing its past and present. Embedding medicare in the diverse constituencies that have given it existence and meaning, contributors inquire into the strengths and weaknesses of publicly insured health care and critically examine medicare’s unfinished role in achieving greater health equity for all people in Canada regardless of race, status, gender, class, age, and ability.Fundamental to the stories told in Medicare’s Histories is the essential role played by communities ¬– of activists, critics, health professionals, First Nations, patients, families, and survivors – in driving demands for health reform, in identifying particular omissions and inequities exacerbated or even created by medicare, and in responding to the realities of medicare for those who work in and rely on it. Contributors to this volume show how medicare has been shaped by politics (in the broadest sense of that word), identities, professional organizations, and social movements in Canada and abroad. As COVID lays bare social inequities and the inadequacies of health care delivery and public health, this book shows what was excluded and what was – and is – possible in health care. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Esyllt W. Jones , James Hanley , Delia GavrusPublisher: University of Manitoba Press Imprint: University of Manitoba Press Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780887552861ISBN 10: 0887552862 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 30 May 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter: 1 Chapterief Complaint: Physician Discontent with Canadian Medicare Chapter: 2 Medicine in the “Muskeg Metropolis:” Health Service Transformation in Canadian Resource Towns, 1960-1975 Chapter: 3 From Health Care Policy to Professional Politics: Medicare and Allied Health Professionals in Quebec, 1960-1990 Chapter: 4 Did Medicare Make Nursing Work Invisible? Chapter: 5 “One foot on ea Chapter side of the border:” Dr Frederick Dodge Mott, Rural Health, and “Socialized” Medical Care in the United States and Canada, 1930s-1970s Chapter: 6 What Was Socialized Medicine? Revisiting the Radical Pre-History of Medicare Chapter: 7 Medicare vs. Medicine Chapterest: Court Chapterallenges and Treaty Rights to Health Care Chapter: 8 Mental Health and Medicare: Who Cares? Chapter: 9 Medicare and Maternity: Historicizing Inequities in Women’s Health Chapter: 10 Becoming Not a Stranger: Home care for rural elders in the age of Medicare Chapter: 11 Medicare in Canada from a Disability Rights Perspective, Ontario c. 1975-1990 Chapter: 12 Prevention or Cure: The Contested History of Public Health and Medicare, 1960-2018 Chapter: 13 Medicare Unfinished: Pharmacare and DenticareReviewsMedicare's Histories offers a superb and timely collection of essays on the critically important subject of Canadian medicare by some of the best scholars in the field. --Elsbeth Heaman """Medicare's Histories offers a superb and timely collection of essays on the critically important subject of Canadian medicare by some of the best scholars in the field.""--Elsbeth Heaman ""History and Classical Studies, McGill University"" This thought-provoking collection features a helpful introduction that situates the authors' contributions in the existing literature.--Linda Kealey, ""Labour/Le Travail""" """Medicare's Histories offers a superb and timely collection of essays on the critically important subject of Canadian medicare by some of the best scholars in the field.""--Elsbeth Heaman" Author InformationEsyllt W. Jones lives and teaches history in Winnipeg. She is the author of the award-winning Influenza 1918: Death, Disease and Struggle in Winnipeg. James Hanley is a Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg. Delia Gavrus is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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