Full Description
Medicare 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.
Contents
Chapter: 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 Denticare
