...William Franko; Julianna Pacheco Abstract Context : Deaths of despair, a term used to capture rising mortality rates among Americans who appear to be suffering from growing mental and physical distress, have received added attention from those seeking to understand this disturbing trend. Yet...

... from the principles of whatever branches of these disciplines they embraced. For much of the past quarter century I have tried to be a good citizen among both health services researchers and medical humanists. I have often despaired of both groups; and I have frequently been bored...

... a vertiginous swing from exhilarated optimism to bitter and cynical despair. Ar- chaic, horrific state hospitals were going to be replaced with a network of com- prehensive, community-based programs that had a mandate to prevent, treat, and rehabilitate mental illness within a geographically bounded area...

... are among the poorest members of society, and among those least able to protect their own interests-especially when it is necessary to pursue them through ad- ministrative procedures that are partially hidden from public scrutiny. Ultimately, Berry despairs of providing crisp and facile answers...

... and unsuccessful search for uni- versal health insurance coverage in the United States—a seemingly delec- table proposition but potentially fraught with despairing complexity—we repeatedly hear, if only implicitly, a similar refrain: “Let the states do it!” After all, Mikey turned out to like his new cereal...

.... Christopher Prinz. Williston, VT: Ashgate, 2003. 430 pp. $44.95 paper. Martyrs: Innocence, Vengeance, and Despair in the Middle East. Joyce Davis. New York: Global, 2003. 214 pp. $24.95 cloth. Poverty and Health: DAC Guidelines and Reference Series. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2003...

... emergency that ap- peared to have a technological solution, we face an endemic medical and social problem. HIV is a virus that flourishes where poverty, hopeless- ness, discrimination, and despair have been unaddressed for decades. A new generation of young persons have come of sexual age with AIDS...

... deviants. Brown is too much the humanist to end merely on the bitter note of antipsychiatry. He avoids the pit of comfortable nihilism which many critics of reform seem to seek. Cynical despair is a luxury in which true radicals may not indulge themselves. He sees meaningful alternatives in China...

... of rage and despair when I read about the benevolent ministrations of the inspector. (After pronouncing one woman eligible for insurance coverage, he shakes his head, “Those were fantas- tic breasts, real beauties. It’s a shame to tamper with them.” [p. 70]. But it is not his job, he says, to give...

... described as “a terror to their neigh- bours.” Fearful of the paternalism of doctors and aware of the abuses that seem inevitably to creep into institutional life, we near despair at “curing” mental illness, retreating instead into giving patients if not their sanity, at least their rights...

... are among the poorest members of society, and among those least able to protect their own interests-especially when it is necessary to pursue them through ad- ministrative procedures that are partially hidden from public scrutiny. Ultimately, Berry despairs of providing crisp and facile answers...

.... Eisenberg also discusses patient demand, defensive medicine, patient charac- teristics , and convenience. Eisenberg next considers the physician as the “guarantor of social good He despairs that there appears to be no intellectual or pragmatic model for how the physician can be both...

... and accepting of his own death at the same time? The answer, of course, is that many persons cannot, that for them attempts at acceptance undermine enclaves of hope,21and that their resulting despair and desolation is not much relieved by reports that others have found acceptance agreeable. 14...

... It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. —Charles Dickens, A Tale...

... and impulsivelydealing, making inappropriate ’ ’ purchases, reducing his life savings on ill-conceived business ventures to the detriment and despair of his family, may grandiosely refuse treatment and have little or no insight into the fact that he is ill. By legal definition, however, many such patients would...

... a political coalition which might address it (at which point, he implies, deep thinking evaporates into despair). Similarly, homelessness, hunger, and childhood poverty await political coalitions more than policy con- ceptions. The problem has been reversed: from the public sector’s imperialism, which...

... a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity.” Nearly a century later this concern still seems apt, but one wonders what Shaw would have thought of managed care. To consider...

... on separating the better TA approaches from the worse. Not that a epidemic of methodological despair seems likely to break out in our schools of public health and public policy. As Giacomini notes, today’s analysts often exhibit a breathtaking faith in the power of their numbers to solve the health...

..., and Unequal Politics . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Monnat Shannon M. , and Brown David L. 2017 . “ More than a Rural Revolt: Landscapes of Despair and the 2016 Presidential Election .” Journal of Rural Studies 55 : 227 – 36 . Ojeda Christopher . 2015...

...: A New Database for Inferring Public Policy Innovativeness and Diffusion Networks .” Policy Studies Journal 48 , no. 2 : 517 – 45 . Case Anne , and Deaton Angus . 2020 . Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Caughey...