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Author Shvarts, Shifra

Title Health and Zionism : the Israeli health care system, 1948-1960 / Shifra Shvarts
Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 322 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Series Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715
Rochester studies in medical history.
Contents The doctors' revolt at Beilinson hospital -- From Beilinson to Tel Hashomer -- Towards a state health system -- Health and politics during the great mass immigration -- Kupat Holim and mass immigration -- The political struggle to establish a central hospital for the Negev
Summary In this follow-up to her 2002 book, The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz, Israel: Kupat Holim, 1911-1937, historian Shifra Shvarts investigates the political and social forces that influenced Israel's health care system and policy during the early years of s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-314) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Medical care -- Israel -- History -- 20th century
Medical policy -- Israel -- History -- 20th century
Politics, Practical.
Health Services -- history
Financing, Government -- history
Health Policy -- history
History, 20th Century
Judaism -- history
Politics
politics.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
SCIENCE -- History.
Politics, Practical
Medical care
Medical policy
Gesundheitswesen
SUBJECT Israel https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007557
Subject Israel
Israel
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008010463
ISBN 9781580467414
1580467415
1283011298
9781283011297
9786613011299
6613011290