{"id":608,"date":"2008-10-23T16:51:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T22:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=608"},"modified":"2013-02-08T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T15:11:11","slug":"raising-the-dead-history-health-reform-and-the-2008-election-oct-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2008\/10\/23\/raising-the-dead-history-health-reform-and-the-2008-election-oct-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising the Dead?  History, Health Reform and the 2008 Election &#8211; Oct 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this election season, competing proposals for health reform have again taken center stage.\u00a0 Colin Gordon, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=UIOWA&amp;request=003038289\">Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health in Twentieth Century America<\/a>, will place these proposals\u2014and their prospects for success\u2014in historical perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~history\/People\/gordon.html\">Colin Gordon, Ph.D. <\/a>is a professor of history at the University of Iowa, specializing in 20th Century U. S. History. For this program, Professor Gordon will provide a brief background on health care policy and its interaction with Presidential politics, prior to facilitating what we hope will be a lively discussion by all those in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, October 28, 2008<br \/>\n5:30 to 6:30 p.m.<br \/>\nHardin Library for the Health Sciences, Information Commons, 2nd floor<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.lib.uiowa.edu\/histmed\/\">University of Iowa History of Medicine Society <\/a>is an informal group of students, faculty, staff, and members of the community sharing an interest in the history of medicine and the health sciences. We present speakers about once a month and, in the spring, host a banquet with a presentation from a well-known medical historian. We have no membership dues and we welcome participants from the University and the general community.<\/p>\n<p>To become a member, simply send an e-mail to either <a href=\"mailto:edwin-holtum@uiowa.edu\">Ed Holtum <\/a>or <a href=\"mailto:donna-sabin@uiowa.edu\">Donna Sabin <\/a>and ask to be placed on our electronic mailing list. In addition to alerting members of forthcoming presentations, the list is also a vehicle for members to communicate matters of interest relating to the history of medicine and the health sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this election season, competing proposals for health reform have again taken center stage.\u00a0 Colin Gordon, the author of Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health in Twentieth Century America, will place these proposals\u2014and their prospects for success\u2014in historical perspective. Colin Gordon, Ph.D. is a professor of history at the University of Iowa, specializing in<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2008\/10\/23\/raising-the-dead-history-health-reform-and-the-2008-election-oct-28\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Raising the Dead?  History, Health Reform and the 2008 Election &#8211; Oct 28&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}