Health care and medical practice in the new world, 1600-1800 -- Health care and regulation in antebellum America, 1800 …-1860 -- The professionalization of American medicine, 1860-1890 -- Health care in the progressive era, 1890-1920 -- The struggle … over health insurance between the wars, 1920-1940 -- Partisan jousting over health care in the postwar era, 1940 …