| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America. By Colin Gordon. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xvi, 316 pp. $29.95,ISBN 0-691-05806-7.)

This new volume by Colin Gordon, associate professor of history at the University of Iowa, is a carefully wrought analysis of social norms and practices, institutional developments, and political mobilization and their dysfunctional results for the American health care system. Apart from the non sequitur in the book's title—it is a particular brand of reform that continually dies, while health care politics are very much alive and well—this is a solid and provocative examination of developments that will be of interest to experienced scholars and novices alike in health and social policy.

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