... of paternalism in the health policy area. The contributions of philosophers to debates on public policy questions are to be welcomed. The Sartorius collection is a fine addition to that literature. Harvard University Steven Kelman Jeffrey Berry, Feeding Hungry People...

...Judy M. Hopkinson Duke University Press 2007 Akobeng, A. K., A. V. Ramanan, I. Buchan, and R. F. Heller. 2006 . Effect of Breast Feeding on Risk of Coeliac Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies. Archives of Disease in Childhood 91 : 39 -43. Ball...

... revealed by wide-ranging research on policy feedback effects: the designs of public policies influence preferences and alter patterns of political mobilization, effects that feed back into the political system, shaping the political environment and the possibilities for future policy making. © 2011...

...Joan B. Wolf From June 2004 to April 2006, cosponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council, the National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign (NBAC) warned women that not breast-feeding put babies at risk for a variety of health problems. “You'd never take risks...

... Affairs 21 ( 6 ): 106 -116. Law, J. 2000 . The Politics of Breastfeeding: Assessing Risk, Dividing Labor. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 25 : 407 -450. Owen, M. J., C. D. Baldwin, P. R. Swank, A. K. Pannu, D. L. Johnson, and V. M. Howie. 1993 . Relation of Infant Feeding...

... children simply do not have the option of choosing between work and staying home — they cannot afford the latter. Joan B. Wolf’s book, Is Breast Best? makes a similar case with regard to breast-­feeding. Her book is part of an ongoing discourse about how mainstream, well-­intended...

... explained how many mothers of young children simply do not have the option of choosing between work and staying home — they cannot afford the latter. Joan B. Wolf’s book, Is Breast Best? makes a similar case with regard to breast-­feeding. Her book is part of an ongoing discourse about how...

... explained how many mothers of young children simply do not have the option of choosing between work and staying home — they cannot afford the latter. Joan B. Wolf’s book, Is Breast Best? makes a similar case with regard to breast-­feeding. Her book is part of an ongoing discourse about how...

... , Jeffrey M. 1984 . Feeding Hungry People: Rule-Making in the Food Stamp Program. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Bishop , Kathryn . 1983 . Soup Lines and Food Baskets: A Survey of Increased Participation in Emergency Food Programs. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy...

... by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health. According to Wolf, the evidence on the risks of not breast-feeding is simply inadequate to warrant a public health campaign that might cause concern among women who do not breast-feed. We then offer a lively debate...

... of the Kanemi Company’s cooking oil in Japan, the 1973 PBB (polybrominated biphenyl) contamination of cattle feed in Michigan, and the 1976 dioxin contamination from the Seveso, Italy, explosion at the ICMESA factory. Following the descriptive chapters, Reich analyzes the similarities and differences...

... her consternation over a male colleague’s decision to tell a woman to quit breast-feeding, without clear indications that the infant’s eye infection was due to bacteria in the mother’s milk. “Personally,” the young doctor stated, “I wouldn’t have been so flippant about telling the woman...

... that “we urgentiy need to demedicalize our relationship to our bodies and our state of health” (p. 162). The obsession with health, tests, and now genetic causation increases “alienation” of individuals from themselves and feeds their negative images. To be ill is “not the worst thing...

... consternation over a male colleague’s decision to tell a woman to quit breast-feeding, without clear indications that the infant’s eye infection was due to bacteria in the mother’s milk. “Personally,” the young doctor stated, “I wouldn’t have been so flippant about telling the woman she’d have...

... of the boom and the onset of drought, Lesotho was obliged to import North American wheat in order to feed herself.”2 Increasing land pressure arising from the events described above plus growing population and soil erosion, coupled with the need for cash in- come for imports, hut taxes, and school...

... models presume a type of flip-the-switch effect. But is that what happens? Do we really think that people adopt a new set of interests, or recognize a new set of citizenship messages, that quickly? Some factors can change in the short term, such as the resource factors feeding into political...

... disparities group had the most difficulty identifying a focused actionable project. This was due partly to the fact that the solutions to health disparities are 556 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law complex and multifactorial. The group identified disparities in breast-­ feeding...

...: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 264 pp. $35.00 cloth. Interrogations, Forced Feedings, and the Role of Health Professionals: New Per- spectives on International Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, and Ethics. Ryan Goodman and Mindy Jane Roseman, eds. Cambridge, MA: Human Rights Program at Harvard Law...

... in the United States . New England Journal of Medicine 361 : 1227 – 1230 . Teno J. M. Mitchell S. L. Gozalo P. L. Dosa D. Hsu A. Intrator O. Mor V. . 2010 . Hospital Characteristics Associated with Feeding Tube Placement in Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Cognitive...

... of work to feed into the semester process. The first is the State of Health in the EU initiative, a two-year “knowledge brokering” exercise to support evidence-based policy making. In even years, SANTE and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) copublish the Health at a Glance...