...: Doubleday. Commentary Tobacco Litigation: Good for the Body but Not the Body Politic R. Shep Melnick...

...Mary G. Winkler Books Reviews Kathy Davis. Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery. New York: Routledge, 1995. 211 pp. $16.95 paper. As I was preparing this review...

.... Scott McCuen, Spring Lake Ranch References Grob, Gerald, N. 1983. Mental Illness and American Society, 1875–1940. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Scheerenberger, R. C. 1983. A History of Mental Retardation. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes. Paul A. Komesaroff, ed. Troubled Bodies...

... by an academic health lawyer in recent years. Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Ohio State University Dan E. Beauchamp. Health Care Reform and the Battle for the Body Politic. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. 73 pp. $44.95 cloth; $16.95 paper. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997...

...Jennifer S. Bard Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts is an important contribution to the body of scholarship and policy analysis about one of the most difficult problems facing contemporary health policy, public health, and bioethics: the fact that the demand for donor organs far...

...James Stacey Taylor Donna Dickenson. Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 208 pp. $115 cloth; $45 paper. Duke University Press 2009 Dickenson, D. 2007 . Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives . Cambridge: Cambridge...

... these relationships are different based on the racial or socioeconomic status of the individual with the chronic disease, given the well-documented bodies of research on both health disparities and disparities in voter turnout. Overall, we find strong evidence that heart disease is associated negatively with turnout...

... the nature and consequences of excess body weight. While members of the fat acceptance groups embrace a body diversity frame, presenting fatness as a natural and largely inevitable form of diversity, members of the antiobesity camp frame higher weights as risky behavior akin to smoking, implying that body...

..., Maryland and Connecticut is examined. The paper concludes that government attempts at controlling costs have, in all cases, required the regulatory bodies to consciously exert influence on the collective bargaining process. Further, while such attempts seem to be within the paradigm of multilateral...

... will include strong representation of traditionally under-represented or under-served groups: (1) increasing competition for governing-body membership by requiring all planning agency governing bodies to be small (30 members or less); and (2) increasing the organizational simplicity of the HSA. Strategies...

... research is technologically driven, dependent on “advances” that generate more comprehensive and therefore more “accurate” data. Accordingly, just as biomedicine causes health care workers and patients to depend on technologies for diagnosis and treatment, health services research instills in the body...

... have effects that are meaningful but small. We then turn to the literature on variations, where we argue that the body of evidence suggests there are large efficiency gaps, though these gaps are smaller than the initial eye-catching results that began this strand of research. Ultimately, these findings...

... the structure of authority in communicable disease control in each European Union (EU) member state. The primary sources of information were the competent bodies list posted on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control website and the Health in Transition reports produced by the European...

... systems in Europe can help improve disease control. National surveillance systems from six European Union countries and from a later comparison of twenty-six European countries are examined. An effective surveillance system can provide information for action and act as a monitoring body for health...

... on offer as well as the issues they will need to consider in choosing an exchange model. We then discuss the considerable body of evidence that addresses how people behave in individual insurance markets, concluding that it strongly supports the need for states to take an active role in shaping health...

...Kristin Madison; Harald Schmidt; Kevin G. Volpp Abstract Employer interest in offering financial incentives for healthy behaviors has been increasing. Some employers have begun to tie health plan–based rewards or penalties to standards involving tobacco use or biometric measures such as body mass...

...Allan V. Horwitz; Gerald N. Grob Abstract Over the course of the nineteenth century, medical disciplines replaced holistic conceptions of body and mind with specific diagnoses that were unrelated to the qualities and circumstances of the individuals who harbored them. Despite periodic attempts from...

... toward assessing care experiences, and there is now a large body of evidence related to the reliability and validity of survey-based assessments of care. As the use of such surveys has increased, so too have concerns about the validity and uses of such surveys. The available research, however, indicates...

...Jerry L. Weaver There is a considerable body of literature that documents the higher infant mortality among American Blacks. This disparity has been attributed to many socioeconomic factors such as poor pre-and postnatal maternal health care, poor nutrition, inadequate housing, and so forth. Yet...

...James D. Chesney This article examines the relationship between regulatory board function and citizen participation. The research indicates that public members generally prefer advisory boards, while provider members prefer quasi-judicial bodies. Implications of these findings for structuring...