William G Rothstein

Biographic Data

ID174417
NAMEWilliam G Rothstein
GIVEN NAMESWilliam G
FAMILY NAMERothstein
SIGNATUREROTHSTEIN W G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform

    William G RothsteinREVIEWJournal of the History of…2012Cited by: 1

    In this book, Paul Starr, formerly a senior White House health-policy advisor for President Bill Clinton, examines the failure of the United States to adopt national health insurance in the past century. He begins by reviewing major developments in the history of national health insurance. In 1915–19, efforts to adopt European-style national health insurance systems failed to gather support. In the 1930s and 1940s, efforts to include national hea…

  • The Decrease in Socioeconomic Differences in Mortality from 1920 to 2000 in the United States and England

    William G RothsteinARTICLEJournal of the History of…2012

    This study found that the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on mortality decreased steadily during the twentieth century. It examined trends in age-specific adult mortality rates for employed men and infants in a number of social classes based on occupation in England and Wales and for black, white, and immigrant nationality groups of men, women, and infants in the United States. Both countries experienced continuing decreases in mortality rat…

  • Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds

    William G RothsteinARTICLEJournal of the History of…2009

    The thesis of this econometric historical study is that government health insurance was not enacted in the United States in the early twentieth century because of sickness funds operated by businesses and labor unions. Sickness benefits, now called disability insurance, provided periodic payments to workers to replace part of their lost earnings when they were sick. Workers preferred them to health insurance in an era when medical care was of lit…

  • Poor People's Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1965

    William G RothsteinARTICLEJournal of the History of…2008

    Medicaid and Medicare were enacted in 1965. Medicare is a federal program that provides health insurance for practically all of the elderly and a few other groups; Medicaid is a joint federal-state program that provides health insurance for selected groups of the poor. Medicaid has received little scholarly attention, including historical scholarship. This book makes a major contribution by analyzing the history of Medicaid from its inception to …

  • Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot

    William G RothsteinARTICLEJournal of American History2006

    Richard Cabot (1868–1939), scion of an illustrious Boston family, received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1892 and served on the faculty from 1899 to 1933. He created the field of medical social work, popularized the clinico-pathological conference, performed pioneering research on blood chemistry, wrote a textbook on physical diagnosis that went through ten editions, and wrote candidly and critically on physician behavior, medica…

  • Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research (review)

    William G RothsteinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2005

    Reviewed by: Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research William G. Rothstein Sydney A. Halpern . Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research. Morality and Society Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii + 232 pp. Tables. $37.50, £26.50 (0-226-31451-0). In Lesser Harms, Sydney Halpern analyzes the history of social control of human experimentation. Three eras are examined: when the scientific community alone …

  • Book Notes

    R M Wilson, Renate Wilson et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

  • The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology (review)

    William G RothsteinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    Samuel Bloom considers medical sociology to be an interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between social factors and health and illness: one of "the greatest hopes" of the founders of medical sociology fifty years ago "was that it would create a place for sociologists in a new academic role in medical schools" (p. 275). The Word as Scalpel begins in the late nineteenth century with the recognition of social determinants of health an…

  • The People's Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790-1860 (review)

    William G RothsteinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2002

    The most famous American medical practitioner from the 1820s to mid-century was the botanical healer Samuel Thomson (1769-1843). Yet today he is considered a minor figure, partly because no significant botanical movement survived past the nineteenth century. Thomson was also part of the empirical rather than the learned tradition in medicine. He characterized his philosophy as "the study of patients, not books--experience, not reading" (p. 92). M…

  • A Profession of One's Own: Organized Medicine's Opposition to Chiropractic (review)

    William G RothsteinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2000

    In this volume Susan Smith-Cunnien applies Emile Durkheim's theory that a group's reactions to deviants can be intended at least as much to strengthen and differentiate the group as to exclude or eliminate the deviants. Using a tabulation of all items about chiropractic published in the Journal of the American Medical Association after 1907, the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal/New England Journal of Medicine after 1915, and several other medi…

  • Time To Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Managed Care Era (review)

    William G RothsteinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2000

    This book completes Kenneth Ludmerer's history of American medical education since the late nineteenth century, which began with Learning to Heal (1985). Time to Heal covers the period after World War I, but emphasizes developments since the 1960s. Because of the great amount of detail in the book, this review will describe several of its themes concerning the primary functions of academic health centers--research, patient care, and teaching

  • Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease

    William G RothsteinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1999

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 1, Spring 1999

  • When Doctors Join Unions (review)

    William G RothsteinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: When Doctors Join Unions William G. Rothstein Grace Budrys. When Doctors Join Unions. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xi + 177 pp. $35.00 (cloth), $14.95 (paperbound). When Doctors Join Unions is a historical and sociological study of an independent California physicians’ union, the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). The UAPD serves as a collective bargaining agent for the 40 percent of its five thousand …

  • Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health (review)

    William G RothsteinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health. 3d ed. William G. Rothstein Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers, eds. Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health. 3d ed., rev. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xi + 587 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth), $27.95 (paperbound). Sickness and Health in America,a collection of readings that has well s…

  • Scientific Authority and Twentieth-Century America

    William G RothsteinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 3, Fall 1998

  • Professions in process

    William G RothsteinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1996

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 70, Number 4, Winter 1996

  • Medical Lives and Scientific Medicine at Michigan, 1891-1969 . Joel D. Howell

    William G RothsteinARTICLEIsis1994

  • The American General Hospital: Communities and Social Contexts

    William G Rothstein, Diana Elizabeth Long et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article The American General Hospital: Communities and Social Contexts. Ed. by Diana Elizabeth Long and Janet Golden. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. xvi + 217 pp. Cloth, $31.50; paper, $9.95.) Get access William G. Rothstein William G. Rothstein University of Maryland, Baltimore County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1344–…

  • A Model of Its Kind. Vol. 1, A Centennial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins

    William G Rothstein, A Mcgehee Harvey et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1990

  • American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine: A History

    Thomas F Garrity, William G RothsteinARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1988

  • American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine: A History

    Patricia Spain Ward, William G RothsteinARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine: A History. By William G. Rothstein. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xii + 408 pp. $29.95.) Get access Patricia Spain Ward Patricia Spain Ward University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 906, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901572 Published: 01 De…

  • External Influences on Medical and Public Health Education

    William G Rothstein, Elizabeth Fee et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1988

  • American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine: A History

    John Harley Warner, William G RothsteinARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1988

  • American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine: A History

    Robert Von Der Lippe, William G RothsteinARTICLESocial Forces1988

  • Pathology: The Evolution of a Specialty in American Medicine

    William G RothsteinARTICLEMedical Care1979

    The historical evolution of pathology as a full-time specialty in medicine is viewed as a response of pathologists to changes in the level and pattern of demand for their services. The development and decline of morphologic pathology, changes in academic pathology and the evolution of clinical pathology from a medical specialty to an industry with an extensive division of labor are all examined in this perspective. It is shown that pathology as a…