Showing papers by "Warwick Anderson published in 2001"

Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care

Abstract: Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional interests. Kenneth M. Ludmerer describes the evolution of American medical education from 1910, when a muck-raking report on medical diploma mills spurred the reform and expansion of medical schools, to the current era of managed care, when commercial interests once more have come to the fore, compromising the training of the nation's future doctors. Ludmerer portrays the experience of learning medicine from the perspective of students, house officers, faculty, administrators, and patients, and he traces the immense impact on academic medical centers of outside factors such as World War II, the National Institutes of Health, private medical insurance, and Medicare and Medicaid. Most notably, the book explores the very real threats to medical education in the current environment of managed care, viewing these developments not as a catastrophe but as a challenge to make many long overdue changes in medical education and medical practice. Panoramic in scope, meticulously researched, brilliantly argued, and engagingly written, Time to Heal is both a stunning work of scholarship and a courageous critique of modern medical education. The definitive book on the subject, it provides an indispensable framework for making informed choices about the future of medical education and health care in America.

May the People Live: A History of Maori Health Development 1900-1920@@@Maori Health and Government Policy 1840-1940

Abstract: A century ago Maori were believed to be a \"dying race\", their population having declined rapidly as a result of European contact. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed account of how this decline was reversed in the years 1900-1918 through imaginative and wide-ranging action taken by Maori themselves. Lange concentrates on the contribution of the well-known \"Young Maori Party\" reformers, Maui Pomare, Peter Buck and Apirana Ngata, the early Maori nurses and the Maori Councils. He emphasizes throughout the conduct and impact of the reforms at grassroots level. Relying on extensive research, this is the first substantive study of a topic of wide interest, then and now. Of real value and significance to students of New Zealand, and especially Maori, history, it will also offer illuminating insights to those actively involved today in improving the health of Maori.