... look at the role the intoxication excuse plays in evaluating and pun- ishing criminal offenders in Great Britain. In Diseases of the Will, Mariana Valverde looks at the history of society’s perceptions of and attitudes toward alcohol and alcoholism over the past...

...Katherine Fierlbeck Books 995 Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, Accidental Logics: The Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 312 pp. $88.00 cloth. How useful...

...Joel Krieger Joanna Mack and Stewart Lansley, Poor Britain (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1985), 324 pp., $22.50 hardbound, $7.50 paperback Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Books Note from the book review editor: 1 will be moving from MIT to Brandeis Uni...

...Martin Gorsky Comparative histories of health system development have been variously influenced by the theoretical approaches of historical institutionalism, political pluralism, and labor mobilization. Britain and the United States have figured significantly in this literature because...

...Geoffrey R. Weller; Pranlal Manga Progress towards the equity objective in health has been seriously threatened in recent years by attempts to halt or reverse the direction of postwar policy and reprivatize the health care systems of Canada, Britain, and the United States. This article examines...

.../economic circumstances, patterns of state/professional relationsconstrain the policy alternatives available to governments, and make fundamental reform very difficult to achieve. After analyzing these factors and the reform policies adopted in France, Great Britain, and West Germany, this article...

...Howard A. Palley William Halsey Barker, Adding Life to Years: Organized Geriatric Services in Great Britain and Implications for the United States (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 237 pp., $35.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988...

...Mary E. Wiktorowicz Although industrialized nations regulate pharmaceuticals to ensure their safety and efficacy, they balance these concerns with those related to the timeliness of the approval process and the burdens involved in meeting regulatory criteria. The United States, Canada, Britain...

...Howard A. Palley © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Constance A. Nathanson. Disease Prevention as Social Change: The State, Society, and Public Health in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Canada. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. 328 pp. $37.50 cloth...

...Theodore R. Marmor; William Plowden Report from the Field Rhetoric and Reality in the Intellectual Jet Stream: The Export to Britain from America of Questionable Ideas Theodore R. Marmor Yale University William Plowden Institute of Public Policy Research...

...Mary Ruggie Susan Giaimo. Markets and Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 2002. 307 pp. $60.00 cloth. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Books...

...Colleen M. Grogan Americans view universal coverage as a reality only if a minimum benefit package is explicitly defined, and discussions about expanding access take place under the slogan of minimum benefits. The policy environment is different in Canada, Britain, and Germany. There, health care...

..., Rutgers University Books 523 Peter C. English. Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain: A Bio- logical, Epidemiological, and Medical History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. 320 pp. $50.00 cloth. Rheumatic fever, a feared and deadly...

...Carolyn Hughes Tuohy This article examines the cases of three health care states — two of which (Britain and the Netherlands) have undergone major policy reform and one of which (Canada) has experienced only marginal adjustments. The British and Dutch reforms have variously altered the balance...

...Charles Allan McCoy Abstract Context: This research examines the development of vaccination policy in Britain, the United States, and Australia to begin to understand the different forms of coercion that industrialized states utilize to achieve vaccination compliance from the majority...

.... With responsibility for funding research concentrated at the center and responsibility for delivering services at the periphery, the research community finds itself in limbo. In comparison to both the U.S. and Canada, Britain therefore offers an example of research both underfinanced and undervalued. However...

... in the principal developed countries in Europe and North America. He interviewed informants, collected reports, and observed events for these topics primarily in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References...

... and political philosophy: individual versus public responsibility in health promotion, and freedom versus compulsion. This article examines the debate from both a domestic (New York, Illinois, Oregon) and crossnational (Great Britain) perspective. It identifies several issues which arose during the debates...

... are not under threat. It continues to be a publicly funded service, freely available to all. It is not being privatized. But it is moving toward the kind of pluralistic system that would have been established by Britain's last, wartime coalition government, had not Aneurin Bevan nationalized the hospital...

... in the United Kingdom as an example of the complex relationship between risk and policy making in democratic governance. Emphasis is on the nature of risk in mental health policy and how government responds to policy and political risks. Mental health policy in Britain is then analyzed in terms of its response...