LECTURE III

The Increasing Socialization of Medicine [71-102]

An Altruistic Profession.
The Past Achievements of Medicine.
The Ever-increasing Importance of Hospitals.
Hospitals and Housing.
The Continuing Mass of Preventible Disease.
The Present Extent of Socialization of Medicine.
Destitution and Sickness.
Insurance and Sickness.
The Needs of the Future.

LECTURE IV

The Medical Aspects of Insurance against
Sickness [103-119]

Criteria of Value of Insurance.
British System of Insurance.
Limitations and Evils of the “Medical Benefit.”
Need for further State Treatment of Disease.
Prevention of Poverty by the Application of Medical Science.
State Medicine must be Preventive throughout.
Conditions of an Efficient Medical Service.

LECTURE V

Some Problems of Preventive Medicine of
the Immediate Future [120-143]

The Incidental Gains from War.
Its Sacrificial Work.
The Comradeship of All Idealists.
Women’s Work.
The Restriction of Alcoholism.
The Change from Empirical to Scientific Methods.
The Still Uncontrollable Diseases.
Influenza and Measles as Types.
The Possibility of Modified Training of Nurses.
The Need for a More Complete Program in Tuberculosis.
The Possibilities of Control of Venereal Diseases.
The More Complete Protection of Maternity and Childhood.
The Abolition of Poverty Tests in Medical Assistance.
Lack of Equality of Service, not Ignorance, the Chief Evil.
The Continuing Value of Voluntary Workers.

LECTURE VI