Luke Messac
Biographic Data
| ID | 1742556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Messac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Messac |
| SIGNATURE | MESSAC L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-8790-2967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Policy Alliance Between Hospitals and Debt Collection Agencies
Significant debate persists about the obligations of nonprofit hospitals toward low-income patients. Many issues pertaining to this subject were discussed during the rulemaking process following the passage of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, which set forth rules for hospital billing and collection. In public comments, hospitals, debt collectors, and patient advocates debated what constituted "reasonable efforts" to determine whether a patient q…
An Ambulance on Safari
Reviewed by: An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile by Melissa Diana Armstrong Luke Messac Melissa Diana Armstrong. An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile. McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, 53. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. xviii + 311 pp. Ill. $37.95 (978-0-228-00330-4). Historians o…
Birthing a Nation
Drawing upon archives in Malawi, the UK and the USA, this article explores the place of public-sector medicine in President Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s ideology of social protection in post-colonial Malawi. In the midst of internecine strife with his cabinet soon after independence, Banda abandoned health-care user fees, provided free food to hospital inpatients and promised new medical facilities. Later, Banda disregarded international advisers by r…
Outside the Economy
Concerns about women’s work were present at the advent of the modern method of national income accounting, and they have featured prominently in the most radical critiques of this method. During and after the Second World War, Phyllis Deane, a young researcher working under the supervision of Richard Stone, Austin Robinson and Arthur Lewis, grappled with the conceptual difficulties involved in measuring the ‘national’ incomes of mostly rural subs…
No Opiates for the Masses
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Moral hazards and Moral Economies
The history of user fees in colonial Nyasaland and postcolonial Malawi demonstrates that public sector medical services have long had moral and political import. During the colonial era, British officials in the peripheral protectorate of Nyasaland provided free (if sparse) healthcare for Africans. This investment sought not only to improve labour supply and productivity, but also to address a growing concern that cosmologies of vernacular healin…
The good-enough science-and-politics of anthropological collaboration with evidence-based clinical research
The good-enough science-and-politics of anthropological collaboration with evidence-based clinical research
Outside the Economy
Concerns about women’s work were present at the advent of the modern method of national income accounting, and they have featured prominently in the most radical critiques of this method. During and after the Second World War, Phyllis Deane, a young researcher working under the supervision of Richard Stone, Austin Robinson and Arthur Lewis, grappled with the conceptual difficulties involved in measuring the ‘national’ incomes of mostly rural subs…
Moral hazards and Moral Economies
The history of user fees in colonial Nyasaland and postcolonial Malawi demonstrates that public sector medical services have long had moral and political import. During the colonial era, British officials in the peripheral protectorate of Nyasaland provided free (if sparse) healthcare for Africans. This investment sought not only to improve labour supply and productivity, but also to address a growing concern that cosmologies of vernacular healin…
The good-enough science-and-politics of anthropological collaboration with evidence-based clinical research
Moral hazards and Moral Economies
The history of user fees in colonial Nyasaland and postcolonial Malawi demonstrates that public sector medical services have long had moral and political import. During the colonial era, British officials in the peripheral protectorate of Nyasaland provided free (if sparse) healthcare for Africans. This investment sought not only to improve labour supply and productivity, but also to address a growing concern that cosmologies of vernacular healin…
No Opiates for the Masses
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Outside the Economy
Concerns about women’s work were present at the advent of the modern method of national income accounting, and they have featured prominently in the most radical critiques of this method. During and after the Second World War, Phyllis Deane, a young researcher working under the supervision of Richard Stone, Austin Robinson and Arthur Lewis, grappled with the conceptual difficulties involved in measuring the ‘national’ incomes of mostly rural subs…
Birthing a Nation
Drawing upon archives in Malawi, the UK and the USA, this article explores the place of public-sector medicine in President Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s ideology of social protection in post-colonial Malawi. In the midst of internecine strife with his cabinet soon after independence, Banda abandoned health-care user fees, provided free food to hospital inpatients and promised new medical facilities. Later, Banda disregarded international advisers by r…
An Ambulance on Safari
Reviewed by: An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile by Melissa Diana Armstrong Luke Messac Melissa Diana Armstrong. An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile. McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, 53. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. xviii + 311 pp. Ill. $37.95 (978-0-228-00330-4). Historians o…
The Policy Alliance Between Hospitals and Debt Collection Agencies
Significant debate persists about the obligations of nonprofit hospitals toward low-income patients. Many issues pertaining to this subject were discussed during the rulemaking process following the passage of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, which set forth rules for hospital billing and collection. In public comments, hospitals, debt collectors, and patient advocates debated what constituted "reasonable efforts" to determine whether a patient q…
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