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Burdens of War - Creating the United States Veterans Health System (Hardcover)
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Burdens of War - Creating the United States Veterans Health System (Hardcover)
Series: Reconfiguring American Political History
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During and after World War I, policy makers, public health
advocates, and veterans laid the groundwork for the extension of
government-sponsored medical care to millions of former service
members. In the process, they built a pillar of American social
policy. In Burdens of War, Jessica L. Adler explores how the
establishment of the veterans' health system marked a reimagining
of modern veterans' benefits and signaled a pathbreaking validation
of the power of professionalized institutional medical care. Adler
reveals that a veterans' health system came about incrementally,
amid skepticism from legislators, doctors, and army officials
concerned about the burden of long-term obligations, monetary or
otherwise, to ex-service members. She shows how veterans' welfare
shifted from centering on pension and domicile care programs rooted
in the nineteenth century to direct access to health services. She
also traces the way that fluctuating ideals about hospitals and
medical care influenced policy at the dusk of the Progressive Era;
how race, class, and gender affected the health-related experiences
of soldiers, veterans, and caregivers; and how interest groups
capitalized on a tense political and social climate to bring about
change. The book moves from the 1910s-when service members
requested better treatment, Congress approved new facilities and
increased funding, and elected officials expressed misgivings about
who should have access to care-to the 1930s, when the economic
crash prompted veterans to increasingly turn to hospitals for
support while bureaucrats, politicians, and doctors attempted to
rein in the system. By the eve of World War II, the roots of what
would become the country's largest integrated health care system
were firmly planted and primed for growth. Drawing readers into a
critical debate about the level of responsibility America bears for
wounded service members, Burdens of War is a unique and moving case
study.
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