The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform

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The Healthiest City MILWAUKEE AND THE POLITICS OF HEALTH REFORM Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material The Healthiest City ~.~ Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT The University of Wisconsin Press Copyrighted Material The University of Wisconsin Press 114 North Murray Street Madison, Wisconsin 53715 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England Copyright © 1982, 1996 by Judith Walzer Leavitt All rights reserved 3 5 4 2 1996 96-5117 Printed in the United States of America First published in 1982 by Princeton University Press Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Leavitt, Judith Walzer. The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform Judith Walzer Leavitt. 318 pp. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-299-15164-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) I. Public health-Wisconsin-Milwaukee-History. 2. Public health administration-Wisconsin-Milwaukee-History. 3. Health care reform-Wisconsin-Milwaukee-History. 4. Urban health-WisconsinMilwaukee -History. 5. Milwaukee (Wis.)-Politics and government. I. Title. RA448.M5L4 362. I '09775'95-dc20 Copyrighted Material FOR MY MOTHER AND FATHER Sally H ochman Walzer Joseph P. Walzer Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material ...