Making medicare new perspectives on the history of medicare in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2012)
Papers previously published in the Canadian bulletin of medical history
Includes bibliographical references and index
1 Canadian Medicare: Why History Matters / Gregory P . Marchildon -- Part One: National History of Medicine. 2 The Foundations of National Public Hospital Insurance / Aleck Ostry -- 3 Into Thin Air: Making National Health Policy, 1939-45 41 / Heather Macdougall -- 4 The Liberal Party and the Achievement of National Medicare / P . E. Bryden -- 5 Political Cartoonists Respond to Medicare / Felicity Pope -- 6 After Medicare: Regionalization and Canadian Health Care Reform / Terry Boychuk
Part Three: Oral History and the Birth of Medicare Witnesses to Medicare in Saskatchewan: Medicare Workshop at the University of Saskatchewan- Wednesday, 20 May 2007 -- 13 The Struggle to Implement Medicare / Allan Blakeney -- 14 Working for Medicare / Betsy Bury -- 15 A Physician on the Front Line of Medicare / John D. Bury -- 16 My Experience in the Medicare Battle and the Woods Commission / Roy Romanow -- 17 A Brief Retrospective on the Royal Commission on Health Services / Jack Boan -- Conclusion -- 18 A New Prescription: Adding Historical Analysis to Health Policy / Heather Macdougall