HSCI 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Keynesian Economics, Working Poor, Typhoid Fever
6 May 2015
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Largely political, turbulence of federal consolidation and political struggle at both federal and provincial levels. Background of intense economic growth, two major imperialist wars, a devastating market crash, and state economic reorientation towards keynesianism. Development of canadian state and state infrastructure: public health and sanitation, hospitals, housing, transportation. Growing and changing conceptions of health and disease, and how and where to focus health and health care knowledge and science. How business and industry springs up around health and health care, which exacerbates tension in debates. Public vs. private; human collective responsibility and rights vs. individual privileges and private assets. Major players: political parties, medical professionals, insurance companies, workers/farmers and rural poor. Parties navigated interests of major backers and investors and majority working poor populatin. Never had a federally-elected social democratic government: election of it at provincial level major influence on federalism. As profits grow, physicians interest in national state-led insurance plan diminish. See definite economic interests in partnership with business.
