...Reuben Bitensky Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 Guest Editorial Death: The Psychotherapeutic Cure for Cancer Reuben Bitensky, Syracuse University The confusion that has been engendered by the Laetrile controversy...

...Sara L. Imhof; Brian Kaskie Many Americans do not experience a good death. The inadequate treatment of pain at the end of life has been associated with a lack of supportive public policies more than a lack of evidence-based clinical practices or organizational efforts. Given a widespread lack of...

...David Barnard Robert A. Burt. Death Is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American Medicine, Law, and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 221 pp. $29.95 cloth. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Burt, Robert A. 1979 . Taking Care of Strangers: The Rule of Law in...

... status quo. Copyright © 1985 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1985 The Life and Death of a Field Experiment: A Case Study of Health Care Research in a Hostile Environment Charles E. Yesulis 111 and Guy S. Levitz, University of Iowa Abstract...

...John M. Owen; James W. Vaupel Victor R. Fuchs, How We Live: An Economic Perspective on Americans from Birth to Death (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), 293 pp., $17.50 Copyright © 1985 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 725...

...Thomas Halper Not long ago, America viewed death and dying with a familiar fear and hostility. But today the subject has become fashionable, part of the transient pop culture, and as a consequence, trivialized and sentimentalized. When lifespans were shorter, deaths quicker, and man felt helpless...

...Joseph J. Fins Samuel Gorovitz. Drawing the Line: Life, Death, and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. 195 pp. $14.95, paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 906 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Samuel Gorovitz...

... Review Essay Death Takes No Holiday Daniel Callahan, False Hopes: Why America’s Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for Failure. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. 330 pp. $24.00 cloth; $17.00 paper. Robert Pollack, The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science. New York...

...David M. Frankford Abstract Sarah Palin's phrase “death panels” derailed proposed provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to pay physicians for end-of-life discussions with patients, a policy designed to make dying more humane, something all Americans desire. Even now, “death panels” has truth...

...Katherine Swartz Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 The Death of Managed Care as We Know It Katherine Swartz Harvard School of Public Health On occasion, a firm loses...

...David Stradling Christian Warren. Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 362 pp. $45.00 cloth. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Hamilton, Alice. 1943 . Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton...

...Deborah A. Stone Eugene D. Robin, M.D., Matters of Life and Death: Risks vs. Benefits of Medical Care (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1984), 205 pp., $21.95 hardcover, $11.95 paperback Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 777 may be that no amount of outside citizen...

...Bethany J. Spielman Karen Grandstand Gervais, Redefining Death (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), 231 pp. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 826 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law The final section of the book is called “Domestic Tranquility and the Common...

...Robert Zussman Stefan Timmermans. Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 256 pp. $59.50 cloth; $22.95 paper. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.2-16 Books 3/22/01 4:02 PM Page 457...

...Stephen D. Sugarman This article offers a bold new idea for confronting the staggering level of death, injury, and disease caused by five consumer products: cigarettes, alcohol, guns, junk food, and motor vehicles. Business leaders try to frame these negative outcomes as “collateral damage” that is...

...Carla Dowben Natural Death Acts have been enacted in eight states in an effort to permit terminally ill patients an opportunity to refuse extraordinary therapeutic measures. In part, these laws reflect fear of a painful, lingering terminal illness which actually occurs in a very small minority of...

...C. Lee Harrington This article reports on a qualitative study of defense attorneys'perceptions of the mental competence or rationality of death row inmates'decisions to waive habeas appeals and proceed directly to execution. Interviews were conducted with twenty attorneys who have either directly...

... Laws on Physician Satisfaction . Unpublished manuscript. Studdert, D. M., and C. R. Gresenz. 2003 . Enrollee Appeals of Preservice Coverage Denials at Two Health Maintenance Organizations. Journal of the American Medical Association 289 : 867 -870. Swartz, Katherine. 1999 . The Death of...

...David K. Jones; Paula S. Atkeson James S. House . Beyond Obamacare: Life, Death, and Social Policy . New York : Russell Sage Foundation , 2015 . xxiii + 234 pp. $35.00 paperback. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Health reform has been one of the most prominent and...