...Bruce Spitz; John Abramson We often think of health policy and health services research as offering solutions to cost, quality, and access problems. Many of us see health policy as simply ineffective. But any activity that has the power to cure can also do harm. Is it possible that the health...

...John Abramson Duke University Press 2007 Remembering Bruce Spitz Introduction Bruce Spitz died suddenly on Labor Day, September 4, 2006, at the age of fifty-nine. He was a stalwart contributor to this journal and many...

... Spitz and John Abramson would have us conclude that it is precisely because of these past investments—par- ticularly those supporting policy-related research—that policy outcomes remain so persistently disappointing. If we accept this conclusion, then we are in a pretty pickle indeed. Although...

... Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Bruce Spitz and John Abramson raise some probing and uncomfort- able questions for the health policy, health services, and applied medical research fi elds in their article “When Health Policy Is the Problem.” This is an article that may infuriate some health...

...Deborah Stone Duke University Press 2007 Spitz, B., and J. Abramson. 2005 . When Health Policy Is the Problem: A Report from the Field. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 30 : 327 -365. Remembering Bruce Spitz...

... questions still outstanding. Michael Sparer had worked with Bruce on revisions before he died. Anne Gering, managing editor, did a masterful job copyediting and illuminat- ing the gaps and vaguenesses that inevitably arise as a piece goes to press. John Abramson and Deborah Stone tackled...

... questions still outstanding. Michael Sparer had worked with Bruce on revisions before he died. Anne Gering, managing editor, did a masterful job copyediting and illuminat- ing the gaps and vaguenesses that inevitably arise as a piece goes to press. John Abramson and Deborah Stone tackled...

... questions still outstanding. Michael Sparer had worked with Bruce on revisions before he died. Anne Gering, managing editor, did a masterful job copyediting and illuminat- ing the gaps and vaguenesses that inevitably arise as a piece goes to press. John Abramson and Deborah Stone tackled...

... questions still outstanding. Michael Sparer had worked with Bruce on revisions before he died. Anne Gering, managing editor, did a masterful job copyediting and illuminat- ing the gaps and vaguenesses that inevitably arise as a piece goes to press. John Abramson and Deborah Stone tackled...

... Gering, managing editor, did a masterful job copyediting and illuminat- ing the gaps and vaguenesses that inevitably arise as a piece goes to press. John Abramson and Deborah Stone tackled the substantive and reference questions necessary to bring the piece to publication. Most of all, we think...

...Marc A. Rodwin © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Abramson, Jeffrey B. 2000 . We the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Belkin, Gary. 1997 . The Technocratic Wish: Making Sense and Finding Power in the Managed Medical Market...

... through Disease in Sierra Leone . Adia Benton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2015. 176 pp. $19.00 paper. The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years . Corey M. Abramson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2015. 256 pp. $39.95 cloth. Copyright © 2016 by Duke...

... of the articles published in volume 35. John Abraham Victoria Brescoll University of Sussex Yale University David Abramson Mollyann Brodie Columbia University Kaiser Family Foundation Jeffrey Alexander...

... of the articles published in volume 34. John Abraham Lawrence Brown University of Sussex Columbia University David Abramson Mirella Ida Cacace Columbia University University of Bremen, Germany Jeffrey Alexander...

...Deborah Stone © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References Abramson J. 2004 . Overdo$ed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine . New York : HarperCollins . Angel R. Lein L. Henrici J. . 2006 . Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis . New...

... Care Reform: Legal and Regulatory Perspectives. M. Gregg Bloche. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 248 pp. $39.95 cloth. Sexual Rights in America: The Ninth Amendment and the Pursuit of Happiness. Paul Abramson, Steven D. Pinkerton, and Mark Huppin. New York: New York University Press, 2003...

... HMO Care for Milwaukee's Poor. Health Affairs 6 ( 1 ): 87 -100. Spitz , Bruce . 1987 . A National Survey of Medicaid Case-Management Programs. Health Affairs 6 ( 1 ): 61 -70. Spitz , Bruce , and John Abramson. 1987 . Competition, Capitation, and Case Management: Barriers...

... 2005 Contributors John Abramson is a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and the author of Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine. He is the former head of family practice for the Lahey Clinic. Beth...

...; $18.95 paper. We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy. Jeffrey Abramson. New York: Basic Books, 1994. 224 pp. $25.00 cloth. 532 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Women and Prenatal Testing: Facing the Challenges of Genetic Technology. Edited by Karen H. Rothenberg...

... to the FDA on issues of tobacco regulation. References 24 Undersigned Public Health Groups . 2014 . “ Comment from 24 Undersigned Public Health Groups ,” August 8 . Abramson John . 2008 . Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine , 3rd ed. New York : Harper Perennial...