Health and Healthcare Policy in Italy since 1861 : A Comparative Approach /

Providing a historical overview of healthcare in Italy from its unification in 1861 to the present COVID-19 pandemic, this book analyses the political, social and cultural impact of Italian healthcare policy and medicine. The author examines the development of public health, hospitals, and primary c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Taroni, Francesco (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Subjects:	Italy-History. Medicine-History. Science-History. Social history. World politics. History of Italy. History of Medicine. History of Science. Social History. Political History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Health in the making of a Nation
Chapter 2. Health and healthcare in the liberal State
Chapter 3. The Great War and the Spanish Flu
Chapter 4. Health under the Fascist State
Chapter 5. Postwar: roads not taken
Chapter 6. The rise and fall of the mutual jungle
Chapter 7. The creation of the Servizio sanitario nazionale
Chapter 8. Reinventing the SSN?
Chapter 9. New issues at the dawn of the Twenty-first Century. Chapter 10. A Lost Decade
Chapter 11. Two Converging Crises
Chapter 12. Postscript./.