The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz Israel : Kupat Holim, 1911-1937 / Shifra Shvarts.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Rochester studies in medical history | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2002Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (360 pages): illustrationsContent type:
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781580466134
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CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWARD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- Introduction: Kupat Holim Then and Now -- 1. Health Services in Eretz Israel (Palestine) in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. The Workers� Health Fund: Ideology and Beginnings, 1903-1914 -- 3. The Workers� Health Funds in the First World War -- 4. The Health System Under British Military Government -- 5. The General Health Fund of Workers in Israel: Kupat Holim -- 6. According to Needs or According to Ability: Kupat Holim, 1924-1930
7. Confrontation and Cooperation Between Kupat Holim and Hadassah, 1920-1930 8. The Emek (Jezreel Valley) Hospital -- 9. Kupat Holim and the British Mandate Government -- 10. Kupat Holim and the Federation of Labor: Reciprocal Membership and the Joint Dues -- Epilogue: Summary and Conclusions -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX
Summary: The first study to research the history of the health funds established by Jewish laborers in Israel.
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CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWARD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- Introduction: Kupat Holim Then and Now -- 1. Health Services in Eretz Israel (Palestine) in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. The Workers� Health Fund: Ideology and Beginnings, 1903-1914 -- 3. The Workers� Health Funds in the First World War -- 4. The Health System Under British Military Government -- 5. The General Health Fund of Workers in Israel: Kupat Holim -- 6. According to Needs or According to Ability: Kupat Holim, 1924-1930

7. Confrontation and Cooperation Between Kupat Holim and Hadassah, 1920-1930 8. The Emek (Jezreel Valley) Hospital -- 9. Kupat Holim and the British Mandate Government -- 10. Kupat Holim and the Federation of Labor: Reciprocal Membership and the Joint Dues -- Epilogue: Summary and Conclusions -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX

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The first study to research the history of the health funds established by Jewish laborers in Israel.

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