Homework answers / question archive / 1)Why did professionalization of medicine start later in the United States that in some Western European nations?     Why did medicine have a domestic, rather than professional, character in the preindustrial era?  How did urbanization change that?     Which factors explain why the demand for services of a professional physician was in adequate in the preindustrial era? How did scientific medicine and technology change that?     How did the emergence of general hospitals strengthen the professional sovereignty of physicians?     Discuss the relationship of dependency within the context of the medical profession’s cultural and legitimized authority

1)Why did professionalization of medicine start later in the United States that in some Western European nations?     Why did medicine have a domestic, rather than professional, character in the preindustrial era?  How did urbanization change that?     Which factors explain why the demand for services of a professional physician was in adequate in the preindustrial era? How did scientific medicine and technology change that?     How did the emergence of general hospitals strengthen the professional sovereignty of physicians?     Discuss the relationship of dependency within the context of the medical profession’s cultural and legitimized authority

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1)Why did professionalization of medicine start later in the United States that in some Western European nations?

 

 

2. Why did medicine have a domestic, rather than professional, character in the preindustrial era?  How did urbanization change that?

 

 

3. Which factors explain why the demand for services of a professional physician was in adequate in the preindustrial era? How did scientific medicine and technology change that?

 

 

4. How did the emergence of general hospitals strengthen the professional sovereignty of physicians?

 

 

5. Discuss the relationship of dependency within the context of the medical profession’s cultural and legitimized authority. What role did medical education reform play in galvanizing professional authority?

 

 

6. How did the organized medical profession manage to remain free of control by business firms, insurance companies and hospitals until the latter part of the 20^th century?

 

 

7. In general, discuss how technological, social and economic factors created the need for health insurance.

 

 

8. Which conditions during the World War II period lent support to employer-based health insurance in the United States?

 

9. Discuss, with particular reference to the roles of (a) organized medicine, (b) the middle class and (c) American beliefs and values, why reform efforts to bring in national health insurance have historically been unsuccessful in the United States.

 

 

10. Which particular factors that earlier may have been somewhat weak in bringing about nation health insurance later led to the passage of Medicare and Medicaid?

 

 

11. On what basis were the elderly and the poor regarded as vulnerable groups for whom special government-sponsored programs needed to be created?

 

12. Discuss the government’s role in the delivery and financing of health care, with specific reference to the dichotomy between public health and private medicine.

 

 

13. Explain how contract practice and prepaid group practice were the prototypes of todays managed care plans.

 

 

14. Discuss the main ways in which current delivery of health care has become corporatized.

 

 

15. In the context of globalization in health services, what main economic activities are discussed in this chapter?

 

 

16. What were the two main aspects of the Supreme Court’s ruling in lawsuits filed against the Affordable Care Act?