American Medicine and the Public Interest Book

	Introduction to the Updated Edition
	Preface
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The Professional Setting	7
1	From Colonial Times to the Civil War: The First Two Hundred and Fifty Years	9
2	Egalitarianism in Medicine and the Challenge of Specialism, 1860-1900	34
3	Reform Achieved: The AMA and Medical Education, 1890-1914	55
Pt. II	Formal Recognition of the Specialties, 1900-1930	75
4	Surgeons, Physicians, and General Practitioners: The Rebirth of the College System, 1900-1916	77
5	Delineation of a Specialty: Ophthalmology, Optometry, and the First Specialty Board	98
6	The American Medical Association and Specialization	115
7	The Public Interest and the Profession	132
8	The Specialists and Professional Regulation	149
Pt. III	The Specialties Come of Age, 1930-1950	173
9	Medical Specialization and Medical Care: Prospects of Organizational Change	175
10	Who Should Control Specialization?	198
11	Specialties and Specialty Boards: The Defining Process	218
12	The Boards As a System	244
13	Medical Care in the 1940s	267
Pt. IV	Professional Structures Reexamined	291
14	Specialization and the General Practitioner	293
15	Pressures for New Specialty Boards: A Process of Fragmentation	318
16	Professionalism and the Medical School	348
17	Graduate Medical Education	378
Pt. V	The Medical Profession and Medical Care	415
18	Medicine and the Public Voice: The Financing of Medical Care	417
19	Shoring up the System: Medicare	444
20	Medicaid: Promise and Experience	473
21	The Federal Government and the Health Care System	496
22	American Medicine and the Public Interest	528
	Statistical Appendix	542
	Bibliography	548
	Update to the Bibliography, 1998	557
	Index	563