Article ID: CBB001214263

Plow, Town, and Gown: The Politics of Family Practice in 1960s America (2013)

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In the 1960s, general practitioners organized themselves into a state-based nationwide political movement that lobbied state legislators and state-funded medical schools to create departments of family practice. They framed their calls in the context of the national shortages of primary care physicians by arguing that those medical schools that received state funding had an obligation to the state to train sufficient numbers of primary care physicians to ensure the health care needs of the state's residents would be met. As this article reveals, two defining features of this activism were rural politics and the politics of town and gown. The history of family practice thus introduces a new dimension to the familiar dyad of town and gown relations: the plow---rural physicians who brought to the medical politics of the post--World War II United States a distinctive and powerful set of political, social, and economic interests.

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Authors & Contributors
Stambolis, Barbara
Gaudillière, Jean-Paul
Berg, Anne Hagen
Beaudevin, Claire
Ortiz Lobo, Alberto
Diedrich, Lisa
Concepts
Medicine and politics
Medicine and society
Public health
Physicians; doctors
Health care
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Italy
Germany
China
United Kingdom
South Korea
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