...Mary Jo Deegan Virginia Sapiro, Women, Biology, and Public Policy, Vol. 10 of Sage Yearbooks in Women's Policy Studies (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985), 272 pp. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 824 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law that brought...

...: biology, behavior, place, stress, and policy. It also argues that a sixth tradition exploring class—and its connection to race, racism, and health—has been underdeveloped. The author examines each of these conceptions of racial disparities in turn. Baked into each interpretive prism is a set...

... formation. This, of course, can be done by instructors who choose to use the book as a text or as supplementary reading in health policy courses. I highly recommend such use. Nanlee Research and Yale University Leon S. Robertson Virginia Sapiro, ed., Women, Biology, and Public Policy, Vol...

.... In other words, while disparities (in health outcomes) might have many roots, from social class to biology and environment, the focus on inequities seeks to call attention to differences that are created by malleable social circumstances. There is both a rhetorical and political strategy at the heart...

... of the tobacco industry on the content, quality, and use of scientific research related to environmental tobacco smoke. Before joining the staff at UCSF, she received a bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford University and a cer- tificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa...

.... Goldbeck, W. B. A Business Perspective on Industry and Health Care. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1978. Goldberg, L. I. “Creativity in New Drug Development: An Academic Chal- lenge.” Perspectives on Biology and Medicine 21: 188-95, Winter, 1978. Kleinman, P. H. and Lukoff, I. F. “Ethnic...

... is why the environment promotes obesity. The cause of population weight gain is an environment that promotes unhealthy eating and discourages physical activity. Much evidence sup- ports this conclusion and leads one away from biology or personal respon- sibility as the primary cause. People who...

... of Economic Opportunity. Washington, DC: Westinghouse Learning Corporation. Collins, M., C. Halsey, and C. Anderson. 1991 . Emerging Development Sequelae in the `Normal' Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant. Pediatrics 88 : 115 -120. Conley, D., and N. Bennett. 2000a . Does Biology Determine Life...

... Einstein College of Medicine and pediatric training at the University of Colorado, he completed a doc- torate in environmental biology at the City University of New York and a postdoc- torate in behavioral biology at Rockefeller University. In 1980 he...

...Lois M. Verbrugge E. J. Clegg and J. P. Garlick, eds., Disease and Urbanization : Volume 20, Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology (London: Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1980), 171 pp., $22.25. Distributed in the U.S. by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. Copyright ©...

...: Human Biology, Environment, Life- style and Health Care Organization. Of significance to the present discussion is the following excerpt: Until now most of society’s efforts to improve health and the bulk of direct health expenditures have been focused on the Health Care...

..., and experiments with infections are all portrayed as horrifying aberrations that fly in the face of the humanistic traditions of German science and learning. Similarly, the acceptance by the German people of mass ex- terminations was, in itself, an act dependent upon eugenic biology and medical ideas...

... and Medicine's Social Contract with Society .” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 51 , no. 4 : 579 – 98 . DeAngelis Catherine D. 2015 . “ Medical Professionalism .” Journal of the American Medical Association 313 , no. 18 : 1837 – 38 . Doran Tim , Kontopantelis Evangelos...

... Use of Genetic Terminology in Medical Research: A Public Health Issue. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 31 : 47 -56. Egan, K. M., P. Newcomb, M. Longnecker, A. Trentham-Dietz, J. Baron, D. Trichopoulos, M. Stampfer, and W. Willet. 1996 . Jewish Religion and Risk of Breast Cancer. Lancet...

... she taught undergraduate biology and genetics at several colleges. She was a visiting scientist in biology-and-society at the University of Groningen in The Nether- lands (1984-1985) and a Fulbright scholar in women’s studies in Waikato University in New Zealand (1986-1987). Her most recent...

... are outlined. It is then applied, in general terms, to related aspects of medical care and/or health services. [LTD I ; 222 pages.] Bailey, Norman T. J.; Sendov, B.; and Tsanev, R. Mathematical Models in Biology und Medicine. Proceedings of the IFIP- TC4 Working Conference on Mcithetnuticul...

... of the Institute on Human Values in Medicine. The inter- sections of ethics and law in medicine are the subject of his current research. Kenneth Bogen received his A.B. (Biology) from Princeton University, M.A. (Science, Technology and Public Policy) from George Washington University, and M.P.H. from...

... Report, Publication No. 276. New York: Commonwealth Fund. Bloche, M. Gregg. 2001 . Race and Discretion in American Medicine. Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics 1 : 95 -131. ———. 2005 . American Medicine and the Politics of Race. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48 (no. 1...

..., Policy and Law tests measure intelligence, and intelligence is primarily inherited. Given those assumptions it is inconceivable that the idea of race would not have been a key aspect of its theoretical construct. In fact, in all areas of biology, heritability and race have become...

... Ideal in Biology . New York:Oxford University Press. Peitzman, Stephen. 1992 . From Bright's Disease to ESRD. In Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History ,ed. Charles Rosenberg and Janet Golden. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Rettig, Richard, and Norman Levinsky. 1991 . Kidney...