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The Great Depression, however, finally exhausted the average patient's ability to pay and engendered a national health-care crisis. A public hospital insurance scheme was first achieved in Saskatchewan in 1947 and nationally in 1957. Universal accessibility without fear of the financial consequences of hospitalization reflected concern for both the medical health of Canadians unable to pay for hospital care, and the economic health of the paying 'patient of moderate means' threatened with medical pauperization. It also provided the resources necessary to address the modern epidemic of lifestyle diseases and to accommodate the demands of the post-war therapeutic revolution. Employing the historical records of selected individual hospitals, reports and data from all levels of government, a wide range of professional medical, nursing, hospital, and public health journals, and the international historiography of hospital history, David and Rosemary Gagan describe and account for the invention, rise, decline, and rebirth of the modern Canadian hospital between 1890 and 1950. They pay particular attention to the evolving interdependence of doctors and hospitals in the struggle to legitimate the social and cultural authority of scientific medicine, the evolution of hospital-based nursing, and the experiences of patients.

Public hospitals --- Federal hospitals --- Government hospitals --- Hospitals, Public --- National hospitals --- Hospitals --- Public institutions --- History. --- Hôpitaux publics --- Histoire. --- Hopitaux publics

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Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state. The book offers new ways of exploring the history of apartheid, apartheid medicine and health care. The long history of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (its full current name) or Bara, as it's popularly known, has been shaped by a complex set of conditions. Established in the early 1940s, Bara stands on land purchased by the Cornish immigrant John Albert Baragwanath in the late nineteenth century. He set up a refreshment post, trading store and hotel on the site - in what is now Soweto - which was a one day journey by ox-wagon from Johannesburg. The hotel became affectionately known as 'Baragwanath Place' (the surname is Welsh, from 'bara' meaning 'bread' and 'gwenith' meaning' wheat'). The land was then bought by Corner House Mining Group and later taken over by Crown Mines Ltd. but was never mined. The British government bought the land in the early 1940s to build a military hospital but by 1947, Baragwanath ceased to operate as a military hospital and under the auspices of the Transvaal Provincial Administration a civilian hospital was opened with 480 beds. Patients were transferred from the 'non-European' wing of the Johannesburg General Hospital in the 'white' area of Johannesburg. Links were immediately forged with the University of the Witwatersrand and Bara would over time become one of its largest teaching centres. This link brought medical students and their teachers into direct contact with apartheid in the medical sphere. This book will contribute to studies of the history of apartheid that have begun to provide a more nuanced account of its workings. The history of Baragwanath and of the doctors and nurses who worked there tells us much about apartheid ideology and practice, as well as resistance to it, in the realm of health care.

Public hospitals --- Hospitals --- Medicine --- Black people --- History. --- Hospital care --- Baragwanath Hospital --- Black persons --- Blacks --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Health Workforce --- Benevolent institutions --- Infirmaries --- Health facilities --- Federal hospitals --- Government hospitals --- Hospitals, Public --- National hospitals --- Public institutions --- University of the Witwatersrand.

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Explains why public institutions for people with developmental disabilities have persevered despite plans to eliminate them.

State hospitals --- Developmentally disabled --- People with mental disabilities --- Hospitals, State --- Public hospitals --- Intellectually disabled persons --- Mental disabilities, People with --- Mentally deficient persons --- Mentally disabled persons --- Mentally disordered persons --- Mentally handicapped --- Mentally retarded persons --- People with intellectual disabilities --- Retarded persons --- People with disabilities --- Intellectual disability --- Mentally ill --- Disabled, Developmentally --- Developmental disabilities --- History. --- Institutional care

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Volume 15 of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Wars and the War Office, picks up on the previous volume's recounting of Nightingale's famous work during the Crimean War and the comprehensive analysis she did on its high death rates. This volume moves on to the implementation of the recommendations that emerged from that research and to her work to reduce deaths in the next wars, beginning with the American Civil War. Nightingale's writings describe the creation of the Army Medical School, the vast improvements made in the statistical tracking of disease, and new measures for soldiers' welfare. Her role in the formulation of the first Geneva Convention in 1864 is related, along with her concern that voluntary relief efforts through the Red Cross not make war "cheap." Nightingale was decorated by both sides for her work in the Franco-Prussian War. While much of her work concerned the mundane sending out of supplies, we see also in her writing her emerging interest in militarism as the cause of war. Her opposition to the Afghan War (of her time) and her work to provide nursing for the Egyptian campaigns, the Zulu War, and the start of the Boer War are also included.

Soldiers --- Military hospitals --- Military nursing --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- Combat support hospitals --- Field hospitals --- Hospital service (War) --- Hospitals, Military --- Public hospitals --- Medicine, Military --- Nursing --- Health and hygiene --- History --- Nightingale, Florence, --- フローレンスナイチンゲール, --- British Red Cross Society --- British Red Cross --- Central British Red Cross Committee --- Central British Red Cross Council --- Red Cross (Great Britain) --- Red Cross. --- National Aid Society --- Croce Rossa Britannica

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Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chronic medical conditions. Cheryl Mattingly proposes a narrative phenomenology of practice as she explores case stories in this highly readable study. Depicting the multicultural urban hospital as a border zone where race, class, and chronic disease intersect, this theoretically innovative study illuminates communities of care that span both clinic and family and shows how hope is created as an everyday reality amid trying circumstances.

African Americans. --- African Americans --- Chronically ill children --- Medical anthropology --- Poor --- Social medicine --- Medical personnel and patient --- Medical care. --- Medical care --- affect theory. --- african american. --- chronic disease. --- chronic illness. --- class. --- clinical narrative. --- ethnography. --- family life. --- health care delivery. --- health policy. --- health. --- hospitals. --- living while dying. --- medical humanities. --- medicine. --- modern healthcare. --- multicultural. --- nonfiction. --- poverty. --- public hospitals. --- race. --- sick children. --- social issues. --- social science. --- terminal illness. --- urban hospital. --- urban life.