| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Canada and the United States

Jonathan Engel. Doctors and Reformers: Discussion and Debate over Health Policy, 1925–1950. (Social Problems and Social Issues.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 407. $24.95.

Jonathan Engel's book, which deals with America's debates over compulsory health insurance, is bracketed by two dates. The first is 1924, when Morris Fishbein was named editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA); the second is 1949, when Fishbein was forced to retire. There have, of course, been other periods when compulsory health insurance found a place on the national agenda, and some would quarrel with Engel's characterization of 1924–1949 as "the period of the most dynamic and heated disputations" (p. 7). Nevertheless, few would deny that it is worth looking closely at the contentions surrounding the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care in the 1920s and the battles over national health insurance legislation during the 1930s and 1940s. . . .

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