....” Editor’s Note Markets as Belief Systems and Those Who Keep the Faith In recent years, the empires of antiquity have become familiar fodder for filmgoers and television audiences. We seem endlessly fascinated by melodramas and morality tales set in the times...

... . Narratives of Prevention The Leap of Faith from Disease Treatment to Lifestyle Prevention: The Genealogy of a Policy Idea Lars Thorup Larsen...

... characterized as a faith in the technocratic wish. In the 1990s, this faith in objective decision procedures has manifested itself through the emergence of outcomes assessment and the development of practice guidelines. Notably, a few states have sought to couple the practice guidelines movement with tort...

... some of the roots and reasons behind this province's adoption of le partenariat as the basis for policy. I suggest that it is a response to four key strategic problems: (1) the exhaustion of resources and allocation of losses; (2) the loss of faith in government and the consequent need to redefine...

... sharpens awareness of rationing. Hopes of greater efficiency are largely faith based. Competing ideologues from the left and the right continue to offer evidence for free solutions to long-established problems. Inefficiency is unethical, as it deprives potential patients of care from which they could...

... potential source of public support: Americans' trust in physicians as faithful agents of patient interests. We conducted two national surveys to explore the public's confidence in doctors compared to other groups. We find that doctors are viewed as harder workers, more trustworthy, and more caring than...

... on the population by the introduction of policies that are based on a faith in markets rather than empirical evidence. Duke University Press 2006 Aaron, Henry J. 2003. Should Public Policy Seek to Control the Growth of Health Care Spending? Health Affairs Web Exclusive, January 8, 28-36...

... minority also endorsed social rejection attitudes. The authors found four contrasting attitudinal profiles: moral condemnation only (32% of respondents), full stigma (26%), no stigma (26%), and stigma rejection (16%). Early vaccination, civic motives for it, faith in science, rejection of political...

...B. Lynn Whitener Anne Hudson Jones and Faith McLellan. Ethical Issues in Biomedical Publication . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 374 pp. $55.00 cloth; $22.50 paper. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.6 09 Books 12/18/01 2:34 PM Page 1412...

... to say about suffering. Arguably, giving meaning to human anguish is the primary purpose of any faith. But the lessons that the faithful derive about our collective obligations to relieve suffering appear to vary greatly across religion, creed, and denomination. For certain faiths, relief...

... of MSAs reflecting a range of views—Mark V. Pauly, William C. Hsiao, and Chris Ham—offer their own valuable insights in response to Barr’s analysis. That leaves “something blue,” symbolic of faithfulness. In a manner of speaking, that is the subject of Peter J...

... Nation (as Marie Gottschalk recounts in her review) has a running motif about fear-driven politics. But for the most part, this is the fear of the unknown other — the new immigrant, the wild savage, the immoral heathen (that is, a believer in any other faith but one’s own), the external threat...

... developing a sophisticated historiography of New York’s public health movements. David Rosner, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health Anne Hudson Jones and Faith McLellan, Ethical Issues in Biomed- ical Publication. Baltimore, MD: Johns...

... after the procedure, and her husband filed suit in the Cali- fornia state courts for breach of contract, bad-faith breach of contract, intentional infliction of emotional damages, and punitive damages. Table 1 contains a brief summary of the HDC/ABMT cases, all of which were decided between 1988...

... industrial purchas- ing of health care were apostates from the one true faith, substituting corporate decisions for choice by individual workers. For those who believe that the choices of rational individuals facing undistorted prices will be superior to choices made in any other way, the diverse compro...

... interpretation of the employer’s obligation to divulge hazard information to the union as part of the employer’s duty to bargain in good faith. The cornerstone of industrial relations policy in the United States, the National Labor Relations Act of 1935,* requires that employers bargain in good faith...

..., ‘This is too hard’? How can Democrats on the Hill say, ‘This is politically too risky’? How can Republicans on the Hill say, ‘We’re better off just block- ing anything from happening “Yes we can,” chanted the Democratic faithful, cheering the clarion call of the great social insurance principle...

... Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References American College of Physicians. 1998 . Understanding the Fraud and Abuse Laws: Guidance for Internists. Annals of Internal Medicine 128 ( 8 ): 678 -684. Bloche , M. G. 1998 . Cutting Waste and Keeping Faith. Annals...

... government seeks to re- form, from stem to stem, an industry of about $900 billion in magnitude, even small, good-faith errors in calculation or projection can result in sub- stantial dislocations. Although we know from experience that changes in the system will affect behavior of the participants...

... is barely aware, senses little loss. The value placed on youth, fitness, and good health gives people a mis- leading sense of self-control and immortality, so that death becomes a personal failure. There is also an abiding faith in technology-indeed, it is so strong that many have come to believe...