"We are Entitled to, and we Must Have, Medical Care": San Juan County's Farm Security Administration Medical Plan, 1938-1946

"We are Entitled to, and we Must Have, Medical Care": San Juan County's Farm Security Administration Medical Plan, 1938-1946

This thesis traces the efforts of rural county in Utah attempting to create a professional medical system and addresses the challenges community faced in this effort including divisions among local and national medical societies, women and gender issues, and opposition to religious hierarchy. Naviga...

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Main Author: Brumbaough, John Howard, Jr.
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spelling ndltd-UTAHS-oai-digitalcommons.usu.edu-etd-56252019-10-13T05:31:38Z "We are Entitled to, and we Must Have, Medical Care": San Juan County's Farm Security Administration Medical Plan, 1938-1946 Brumbaough, John Howard, Jr. This thesis traces the efforts of rural county in Utah attempting to create a professional medical system and addresses the challenges community faced in this effort including divisions among local and national medical societies, women and gender issues, and opposition to religious hierarchy. Navigating these conflicts, the local leaders in San Juan County established a medical cooperative which enable the permanent residence of a physician and later the construction of a hospital. San Juan County provided these medical services for its residents at a time when many of counties in the United States failed to expand their health services. San Juan succeeded due to dynamic leadership, support of local medical association, and the slow expansion of the medical system. 2015-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4589 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5625&context=etd Copyright for this work is held by the author. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. For more information contact Andrew Wesolek (andrew.wesolek@usu.edu). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations DigitalCommons@USU History
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Brumbaough, John Howard, Jr.
"We are Entitled to, and we Must Have, Medical Care": San Juan County's Farm Security Administration Medical Plan, 1938-1946
description This thesis traces the efforts of rural county in Utah attempting to create a professional medical system and addresses the challenges community faced in this effort including divisions among local and national medical societies, women and gender issues, and opposition to religious hierarchy. Navigating these conflicts, the local leaders in San Juan County established a medical cooperative which enable the permanent residence of a physician and later the construction of a hospital. San Juan County provided these medical services for its residents at a time when many of counties in the United States failed to expand their health services. San Juan succeeded due to dynamic leadership, support of local medical association, and the slow expansion of the medical system.
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title "We are Entitled to, and we Must Have, Medical Care": San Juan County's Farm Security Administration Medical Plan, 1938-1946
title_short "We are Entitled to, and we Must Have, Medical Care": San Juan County's Farm Security Administration Medical Plan, 1938-1946
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