Social medicine vs professional dominance
The German experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11024168 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald W Light (0000-0002-3233-676X), S Liebfried, Florian Tennstedt |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-83 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.76.1.78 |
| PMID | 3510052 |
| OpenAlex | W2116874510 |
| Language | IT |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article describes the efforts by German workers' groups and pioneering social physicians to design health care services oriented to prevention and cost-effective treatment. Jews played a key role in developing these prototypes of today's health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs). The growing success of these services threatened private practitioners in a number of ways. They formed a trade union and took militant action. Stage by stage, the profession asserted its dominance, culminating in an alliance with the National Socialists and Hitler to take over these services and to purge them of socialist and Jewish physicians. Medical societies assisted Hitler in his policies of "purification," and the health care delivery systems shifted from being local, patient-centered, and health-oriented to being national, physician-centered, and focused on curing illness. After World War II, these changes were not reversed as part of denazification, and 40 years later, social medicine has yet to recover
Alliance · Dominance (genetics) · Economic growth · Economics · German · Health care · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Social medicine · Health and Medical Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Law · Medical History and Research · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration
The dynamics of TCAM integration in the Indian public health system
Raza, alteridad y exclusión en Alemania durante la decada de 1920
Kupat Holim, Dr. Isaac Max Rubinow, and the American Zionist Medical Unit's Experiment to Establish Health Care Services in Palestine, 1918-1923
Institutional Changes, Research Culture and Professionalism
Professional Dominance and the Medical Profession
Two Comments Received on The German Experience and Social Medicine
Dr. Wolfe's Response
Public hospitals in the changing health system
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2021 (36) |
| Highly cited | No |