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Social Medicine in Cuba

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Joseph F. Thorning
Joseph F. Thorning*
Affiliation:
Washington, D. C.
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Extract

There is probably no more controversial issue in the United States today than that which is being debated, quite inaccurately, under the heading of “socialized medicine.” Public interest in the question has been crystallized by the introduction in the Congress of the United States of the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill. At the same time, the champions of State sovereignty have prepared legislation aiming to provide medical care as well as hospitalization for low-income groups, without excessive extension of Federal power in a domain that touches intimately upon personal rights and local liberties.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , April 1945 , pp. 440 - 455
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1945

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References

1 The New York Times, January 4, 1945.

2 Cf. “A Medical Civil Service?” By Joseph F. Thorning in The Journal of the American Medical Association, April 9, 193 8.

3 All the material for this section of the article was examined, in the form of original documents and records, in the archives of the Centro Asturiano, Havana, Cuba.