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SUMMARY:New York City and the Chronic Disease Movement in Interwar America
DESCRIPTION:The New York Academy of Medicine\n1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street\nNew York\, NY 10029 \nGeorge Weisz\, Cotton-Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at McGill University \nAfter World War I\, the United States became the first nation to transform chronic diseases into a major political issue. Many nations were concerned with specific diseases like cancer but the U.S. was unique in seeing all communicable diseases as a single problem that required a coordinated social response. The heart of this movement was New York City and particularly its medical community centered in The New York Academy of Medicine led by Ernst Boas. Figures in the public health\, social welfare\, insurance and hospital administration domain also contributed to New York City’s uniquely activist chronic disease programs which culminated in the creation in 1941 of the Goldwater Chronic Disease Hospital on Welfare (now Roosevelt) Island and in Montefiore Hospital’s pioneering home-care program. With the election of Franklin Roosevelt as President of the country in 1932\, several major New York figures went to Washington and brought the chronic disease problem onto the national stage. This issue served initially as a major justification for the reform of healthcare financing. Although the political campaign for healthcare reform failed\, the model of an activist chronic disease strategy spread widely by the 1950s\, leading to the Commission for Chronic Disease (1949-1957) which enduringly influenced American healthcare policy during the following decades. \nThis event is free for students with advance registration; member tickets cost $8 and general public tickets cost $12. For more details and to register\, visit the event’s website. \nGeorge Weisz is the Cotton-Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine. He received a PhD in History from Stony Brook University and in Sociology from the University of Paris 5. He works on healthcare in Europe and North America between the 19th and 21st centuries. His two most recent books are Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History (2014) and Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization\, 1830-1950 (2006). He is the author of two other monographs\, over 80 articles\, and editor of five collective volumes of essays in medical history.
URL:https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/scisoc/cssevent/new-york-city-chronic-disease-movement-interwar-america/
LOCATION:New York Academy of Medicine\, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street\, New York\, NY
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