...Elizabeth Graddy State regulation of occupations has become more prevalent even while its negative consequences are becoming understood. This raises questions about the source of such regulation and the extent to which the interests of the public are being represented. In my study of the regulation...

...Carol Sakala Sue Fisher, In the Patient's Best Interest: Women and the Politics of Medical Decisions (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986), 214 pp., $25.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Book Reviews 371...

...Marc A. Rodwin; AtoZ (Etsuji) Okamoto Japanese health policy shows that even with physician ownership and the absence of for-profit, investor-owned health care, physicians' conflicts of interest thrive. Physician dispensing of drugs and ownership of hospitals and clinics were justified in Japan...

.... Bauer, Raymond A., Ithiel de Sola Pool, and Lewis Anthony Dexter. 1972 . American Business & Public Policy: The Politics of Foreign Trade . Chicago: Aldine-Atherton. Baumgartner, Frank R., and Beth L. Leech. 1998 . Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and Political Science...

... Interest-Group Influence on the Patient Protection and Affordability Act of 2010: Winners and Losers in the Health Care Reform Debate Jill Quadagno Florida State University...

... to this divisive conflict. In this article we examine individual-level dynamics in health care attitudes between 2008 and 2010. We find partisan attachments and self-interests strongly predict change in health care attitudes, with Republicans growing more opposed to universal health insurance between 2008 and 2010...

...Joseph White Rodwin Marc A. . Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . 375 pp. $29.95 cloth. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 References Glaser William A. 1991 . Health Insurance in Practice . San...

... geographic and career mobility, and contribute to the reduced utilization of newer, emergent categories of health personnel. This paper addresses a subject that is often overlooked in the literature on licensing: the inherent conflict-of-interest in professional licensing boards, where the predominant voice...

...Richard G. Frank James W. Begun, Professionalism and the Public Interest: Price and Quality in Optometry (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981), 140 pp., $17.50 Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 746 Journal of Heaith Politics...

...Howard S. Berliner; Robb K. Burlage; Richard H. Egdahl; Diana Chapman Walsh Irving J. Lewis and Cecil G. Sheps, The Sick Citadel: The American Academic Medical Center and the Public Interest (Cambridge, Mass.: Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, 1983), 263 pp., $25.00 Copyright © 1984...

...Timothy Stoltzfus Jost Marc A. Rodwin Medicine, Money and Morals: Physicians' Conflicts of Interest. . New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 411 pp. $25.00 cloth. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References Frankford , David M. 1989 . Creating and Dividing...

... of insurance. This history exemplifies how health policy is often made outside conventional arenas. On the basis of published primary sources and interviews with a number of key participants, the paper describes how interest groups which rarely act together coalesced to create and sustain semipreemption...

...Patricia M. Alt Gray Virginia , Lowery David , and Benz Jennifer K. . Interest Groups and Health Care Reform across the United States . Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press , 2013 . 248 pp. $29.95 paper. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Virginia...

... choice. Purchasers have subsidized inefficient insurance designs in order to exploit tax and regulatory loopholes and to retain an image of corporate paternalism. America's health care system suffers from the public abuse of private interests and the private abuse of the public interest. © 2003 by Duke...

...Etienne E. Pracht; William J. Moore A simultaneous equations model is estimated to analyze the interaction between state Medicaid pharmaceutical drug reimbursement rates, drug recipients per capita, and expenditures per drug recipient. Interest groups are shown to have a strong positive impact...

... is financed by the tobacco industry and funds research related to tobacco, it fosters an inherent conflict of interest. We consider whether this conflict of interest has affected the content, quality, or use of research funded by CIAR. We hypothesize that the tobacco industry might be using CIAR to develop...

...E. Clarke Ross In this essay I identify how historic patterns of competition among health care interest groups have simultaneously retained their past contours and also changed significantly as a result of the jolt created by the rise of managed care. I explain why it is that I and other executives...

...Peter Temin Peter Davis, ed. Contested Ground: Public Purpose and Private Interest in the Regulation of Prescription Drugs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 262 pp. $39.95 cloth. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Reviews...

...Jean L. McSween Public attitudes toward mental health present an interesting puzzle. While mental health is one aspect of general health and well-being, it receives less support for government spending increases than does health care. One explanation lies with the stigma that is attached to mental...