Medicare's histories origins, omissions, and opportunities in Canada / edited by Esyllt W. Jones, James Hanley, and Delia Gavrus.

Other author Jones, Esyllt W., 1964-
Other author Hanley, James G. (James Gerald)
Other author Gavrus, Delia.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, [2022]
Description384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Contents Did Medicare Make Nursing Work Invisible? / Kathryn McPherson (York University) -- "One foot on each side of the border:" Dr Frederick Dodge Mott, Rural Health, and "Socialized" Medical Care in the United States and Canada, 1930s-1970s / J.T.H. Connor (Memorial University) -- What was Socialized Medicine? : Revisiting the Radical Prehistory of Medicare / Esyllt W. Jones and Aaron Goss -- Medicare vs. Medicine Chest: Court Challenges and Treaty Rights to Healthcare / Mary Jane McCallum (University of Winnipeg) and Maureen Lux (Brock University) -- Medicare and Maternity: Historicizing Inequities in Women's Health / Whitney Wood (Vancouver Island University) -- Medicare and Maternity: Historicizing Inequities in Women's Health / Whitney Wood (Vancouver Island University) -- Medicare in Canada from a Disability Rights Perspective, Ontario c. 1975-1990 / Geoffrey L. Hudson (Northern Ontario School of Medicine) -- Becoming Not a Stranger: Home care for rural elders in the age of Medicare / Megan J. Davies (York University) -- Becoming Not a Stranger: Home care for rural elders in the age of Medicare / Megan J. Davies (York University) -- From Healthcare Policy to Professional Politics: Medicare and Allied Health Professionals in Quebec, 1960-1990 / Julien Prud'homme (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) and Antoine Rossignol (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) -- From Healthcare Policy to Professional Politics: Medicare and Allied Health Professionals in Quebec, 1960-1990 / Julien Prud'homme (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) and Antoine Rossignol (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) -- Medicine in the "Muskeg Metropolis:" Health Service Transformation in Canadian Resource Towns, 1960-1975 / Sasha Mullally (University of New Brunswick) and David Wright (McGill University) -- Challenging Medicare's Dominence: New Paradigms in Health Promotion anbd Population Health, 1960-2018 / Heather MacDougall (University of Waterloo).
Abstract "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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