Social History and Social Policy

Contents

List of Contributors

Preface


1 Introduction

I The History of Social Institutions


2 Inward Vision and Outward Glance: the Shaping of the American Hospital, 1880-1914 19

Decisions and Decision Makers

Sources of Change and Forms of Control

Inpatient and Outpatient in the Culture of Medicine

Visions and Realities: The Hospital in a New Century

Conclusion


3 Education and Inequality: a Historical Perspective

Public Policy Issues

Origins of Public Educational Systems: The Nineteenth-Century Context

A Three-Stage Paradigm

Educational Change and Social Problems

Some Results of Public Education

The Dialectics of Social Policy

Discontinuities in Social Issues


4 The Diary of an Institution: the Fate of Progressive Reform at the Norfolk Penitentiary

II The History of Social Problems


5 The Morass: an Essay on the Public Employee Pension Problem


6 Women's Clinics or Doctors' Offices: the Sheppard-Towner Act and the Promotion of Preventive Health Care


7 History, Social Policy, and Criminal Justice

Handle with Care: Discretion and the Dangerous Offender

Plea Bargaining: Its Cause and Cure

Hands Off: The Rise and Fall of Victimless Crime

Conclusion

III The Uses of History in the Making of Social Policy


8 Mirrors of Hard, Distorted Glass: an Examination of Some Influential Historical Assumptions about the Afro-American Family and the Shaping of Public Policies, 1861-1965

"Root, Hog, or Die!"

Up from Barbarism

The Favored Few and the Victim Class

The Future


9 Urban Pasts and Urban Policies

Introduction

National Urban Growth Policy

Regional Shares and Urban Policy

A Concluding Note


10 History and the Formation of Social Policy Toward Children: a Case Study

The Work of the Carnegie Council: An Overview

History in the Work of the Council

The Role of a Historian: Personal Reflections

Subject Index