The New York Academy of Medicine's Section on the History of Medicine
and Public Health, with the support of the New York Council for the
Humanities, is pleased to announce a talk by Rashi Fein:

Tuesday, December 1
"Presidents and the Never-Ending Quest for Health Reform"
Rashi Fein, Ph.D.

Light refreshments at 5:30 p.m.; Lecture at 6:00 p.m.

Eminent medical economist Rashi Fein concludes our mini-series with an
assessment of how America’s presidents have defined America's health
"problem" and the different "solutions" they proposed. He will examine
the factors that helped lead to success and failure in Presidential
efforts to extend health insurance, paying special attention to the role
of individuals and ideology as well as the limits and strengths of
presidential power.

Rashi Fein is Professor of Medical Economics, Emeritus, at Harvard
Medical School. Among his many books are Medical Care, Medical Costs:
The Search for a Health Insurance Policy, and The Health Care Mess; How
We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out (which he co-wrote with
US Surgeon General Julius Richmond). He is currently working on a book
narrating some of his experiences in the efforts to implement and
improve health-care policies.

This lecture is open to the public and free of charge.

Professor Fein's talk concludes our four-part lecture series, "With
Coverage for All?: Health and the State in Twentieth Century America."
The other lectures in the series are:

Tuesday, October 6
Insurance or Rights? Debates over Health Coverage and Access to Health
Care in the U.S., 1912-1950
Beatrix Hoffman, Ph.D.

Industry vs. System: US Health Policy 1948-2009
Rosemary Stevens, Ph.D., M.P.H
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Jonathan Engel, Ph.D.
"What is Wrong with Medicaid?"
Thursday, November 12

This series received funding from the New York Council for the
Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this lecture series do not necessarily represent those of
the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Save the Dates! Upcoming lectures from the Section on the History of
Medicine and Public Health:

Thursday, February 4
M. Susan Lindee, Ph.D., The Lilianna Sauter Lecture, “Gut Feelings and
Technical Precision: Thinking about Cystic Fibrosis”

Wednesday, March 17
Steven Peitzman, M.D., The Iago Galdston Lecture,  “Bleed or Not Bleed
Mrs. Camac? A 19th Century Medical Decision”

Monday, April 12
Jacalyn Duffin, M.D., Ph.D., The John K. Lattimer Lecture, “Medical
Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World”

Wednesday, May 19
William B. Ashworth, Jr., The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room
Lecture, “Nature Revealed: The Evolution of a Scientific Emblem”

For more information about the Historical Collections at the New York
Academy of Medicine, please visit our website,
http://www.nyam.org/library/pages/historical_collections .

For more information about the public lectures series sponsored by
Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health, please call Arlene
Shaner in the Rare Book Room at 212-822-7313 or send email to
history@nyam.org.

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