...Philip J. Cook H. Laurence Ross. Confronting Drunk Driving: Social Policy for Saving Lives . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992. 220 pp. $25.00 cloth. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Reviews H. Laurence Ross...

... monograph on deterring drunk driving arrives at a time when public concern with this issue is extraordinarily intense. While Book Reviews 959 the Mothers Against Drunk Driving and other groups that support a fierce crackdown on offenders may not like...

... Academy Press, 1984), 174 pp. Denis Foley, Stop DWI: Successful Community Responses to Drunk Driving (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986), 183 pp. Patrick Biernacki, Pathways from Heroin Addiction: Recovery without Treatment (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986), 245 pp...

... in pre- senting the context in which policy choices are made and evaluated. The overall trend has been quite favorable during the last decade, with reductions in both the absolute and relative importance of drunk driving in traffic fatalities. Sorting out the reasons for this trend is...

... Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America. Donald A. Barr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 355 pp. $75.00 cloth; $50.00 paper. History and Humanities One for the Road: Drunk Driving since 1900. Barron Lerner. Baltimore...

... and Indigent Hospital Care, 4 :905-925 Charles, Cathy, and Suzanne DeMaio. Lay Participation in Health Care Decision Making: A Conceptual Framework, 4:881-904 Cook, Philip J. Review of Confronting Drunk Driving: Social Policy for Saving Lives (H. Laurence Ross), 1 :235-37...

... example, over twenty states have adopted laws requiring use of child safety seats in automobiles, thereby reducing injuries and deaths asso- ciated with motor vehicle collisions. Similarly, states are strengthening drunk-driving laws and improving enforcement of them to reduce alcohol- related...

... . Principles of Microeconomics, (2nd ed.). Glenview, IL: Scott, Fbresman. Saffer , H. , and F. Chaloupka. 1987 . Breath Testing and the Demand for Drunk Driving. Washington, DC: National Bureau of Economic Research. Saffer , H. , and M. Grossman. 1987 . Beer Taxes, the Legal Drinking Age, and...

... Alert! 2005. Drunk Driving Statistics. www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics-2005.html (accessed May 15, 2009). American Law Institute. 1991 . Enterprise Responsibility for Personal Injury: Reporters' Study . 2 vols. Philadelphia: American Law Institute. ____. 1998 . Restatement...

.... 280 pp. $25.00 cloth; $16.00 paper. Some years ago, a young man got tossed out of Brown University for get- ting drunk and screaming racial slurs. He sued, of course, arguing that the university had violated his rights. When the inevitable media storm hit, I was...

... University Press, 1992. 299 pp. $24.95 cloth. Biomedical Research: Collaboration and Conjlict of Interest. Edited by Roger J. Porter and Thomas E. Malone. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. 230 pp. $45.00 cloth. Confronting Drunk Driving: Social Policy for Saving Lives. H...

... drunk driving arrives at a time when public concern with this issue is extraordinarily intense. While ...

... to anti–drunk driving initiatives) have reduced highway fatalities. Fluoridated water is required in much of the country. There are numerous mandatory vaccination programs (and the antivaccination movement remains small). Regular health promotion campaigns focus on healthy eating and physical...

... carried to term. For more information contact Joyce Theodore, National Bureau of Economic Research, 269 Mercer St., New York, NY 10003-6687. Duke University received a research grant for the project “Heavy Drinking and Drunk Driving—Which Deterrents Work?” This four-year study is a continuation of...

... or at heavy users); (5) school policies on alcohol that are not just educational in nature; (6) mandatory airbag laws and other measures to protect all who are on the highways, including those driving while drunk. Beyond these measures, according to Beau- champ, alcoholism must be redefined...

...: Regulating Recombinant DNA Research in Britain. By David Bennett, Peter Glasner and David Travis. 218 pp. New York: Methuen, Inc., 1986. $35.00 Stop DWI: Successful Community Responses to Drunk Driving. Edited by Denis Foley. 183 pp. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986. $24.00 Women...

... Including Women in Clinical Studies. Vol. 2: Workshop and Commissioned Papers. Institute of Medicine. Washing- ton, DC: National Academy Press, 1994. 264 pp. $29.00 paper. Politics and Policy Confronting Drunk Driving: Social Policy for Saving Lives. H. Laurence Ross. New Haven: Yale University...

..., ed. , Toward the Prevention of Alcoholic Problems: Govern- ment, Business, and Community Action (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1984), 174 pp. Denis Foley, ed. , Stop DWI: Successful Community Responses to Drunk Driving (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986), 183 pp...

... arrested under drunk driving laws, Justice Stevens stated in his concurrence that the challenged statute would “unlikely. . . have a significant effect on that 2 percent or on the law-abiding 98 percent. But even assuming some such slight benefit, it does not seem to me that the state can be...

... he suggests some interesting differences between deterrence-based policies (e .g. , stricter enforce- ment of drunk-driving laws) and mandated self-protection (e.g., motorcycle helmet laws .) I might not be so quick as Robertson to dismiss the education and prohibition strategies...