... providing Medicaid managed care services, including state Medicaid officials, health benefit counselor staff (enrollment brokers), managed care plan (HMO) staff, and consumer advocates. The training addressed the core issue in health literacy: the mismatch between the low literacy skills of the target...

... acknowledges the subordinate status of Nancy Thomas, the M.A. genetic counselor on whom the other genetic coun- selors-all (male) physicians-“dumped” the emotions work after other physicians dumped it on them and Mary O’Flynn, a nurse who sometimes counseled prenatal diagnosis patients when her boss...

... on what it is like to be a family planning or abortion counselor working in the midst of these hostilities. Her important and richly evocative book analyzes Book Reviews 769 the ways front-line social service personnel complete the reproductive policy...

... 770 Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law discussion, Joffe describes how counselors created a positive identity for their work, in large part by emphasizing its professional helping qualities-qualities that had to be maintained while counselors struggled to keep...

... themselves) should focus efforts toward encouraging state boards to include legal counselors because this variable proved such a strong determinant of pain-policy outcomes (i.e., for every increase in one full-time legal counselor the hazard that the board would adopt Outcomes A though D...

... Hospital. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992. 183 pp., plus references and index. $24.95 cloth. In this book Charles Bosk tells two tales. The first is indicated by the book’s subtitle: the story of genetic counselors who work on the “shop floor” of an elite, urban pediatric hospital...

... an infected toe had to be amputated. Mrs. 0 wanted to return home as soon as possible, so a MAO counselor, in consultation with her doctor, arranged supportive services- home delivered meals, homemaking services, nursing, an outpatient medical follow-up, transportation,counsel- and ing...

.... Individuals become members of the Medical Care Section by first joining the American Public Health Association and then by electing to be affiliated with the Medical Care Sec- tion. Each year the members of the Medical Care Section elect a chairman, five section counselors, and seven governing...

... audiences in deliberations around a broad range of ethics and policy issues. In 1993, he was a member of Working Group #17 for the White House Task Force on Health Reform. Tené Hamilton Franklin is a genetic counselor in the departments of internal medi­ cine and obstetrics and gynecology at Meharry...

... a teenage parent, documents the experiences of thirty-two African American women, seventeen current teenage mothers (aged fourteen to nineteen), and fif- teen older women (aged twenty to forty-three) who had children while in their teens. Kaplan also draws on her work as a volunteer counselor...

... demonstrations were held. But Carole Joffe’s Regulation ofsexuality takes us to the front lines of today’s conflicts, focusing on what it is like to be a family planning or abortion counselor working in the midst of these hostilities. Her important and richly evocative book analyzes Copyright © 1988...

... is, it does not support her point. Finkler’s sample consists of thirty-seven individuals, twenty-two of whom are women referred by a genetic counselor who had seen them in regard to breast cancer, and fifteen of whom were adopted and who were recruited into the study because they had attempted to locate...

... is, it does not support her point. Finkler’s sample consists of thirty-seven individuals, twenty-two of whom are women referred by a genetic counselor who had seen them in regard to breast cancer, and fifteen of whom were adopted and who were recruited into the study because they had attempted to locate...

... is, it does not support her point. Finkler’s sample consists of thirty-seven individuals, twenty-two of whom are women referred by a genetic counselor who had seen them in regard to breast cancer, and fifteen of whom were adopted and who were recruited into the study because they had attempted to locate...

...-seven individuals, twenty-two of whom are women referred by a genetic counselor who had seen them in regard to breast cancer, and fifteen of whom were adopted and who were recruited into the study because they had attempted to locate their bio- logical mothers. Of the twenty-two women in the breast...

... is, it does not support her point. Finkler’s sample consists of thirty-seven individuals, twenty-two of whom are women referred by a genetic counselor who had seen them in regard to breast cancer, and fifteen of whom were adopted and who were recruited into the study because they had attempted to locate...

...-seven individuals, twenty-two of whom are women referred by a genetic counselor who had seen them in regard to breast cancer, and fifteen of whom were adopted and who were recruited into the study because they had attempted to locate their bio- logical mothers. Of the twenty-two women in the breast...

... is, it does not support her point. Finkler’s sample consists of thirty-seven individuals, twenty-two of whom are women referred by a genetic counselor who had seen them in regard to breast cancer, and fifteen of whom were adopted and who were recruited into the study because they had attempted to locate...

... is, it does not support her point. Finkler’s sample consists of thirty-seven individuals, twenty-two of whom are women referred by a genetic counselor who had seen them in regard to breast cancer, and fifteen of whom were adopted and who were recruited into the study because they had attempted to locate...

... Practice Association, Dr. W. Grayburn Davis has become medical director of a Phoenix HMO, the INA Health Plan. Replacing NelsonCruikshank as White House counselor on aging is Harold Sheppard of the American Institute for Research’s Center on Work and Aging. Named as president...