... in the top economics, political science, and sociology journals. This special issue aims to bring abortion research into a more generalist space, challenging what the authors term “the abortion research paradox,” wherein abortion research is largely absent from prominent disciplinary social science journals...

... This feature of the journal highlights the activities of the organizations affiliated with the journal as described in the front of this issue. The informationin these pages is for membersof the organizations as well as for the journals generalreadership. Member organizations are invited to submit...

..., and characteristics of state intervention. Part III (which will appear in the next issue of this journal) focuses on the mode of that intervention and the reasons for its growth, with an added analysis of the attributes of state intervention in the health sector, and of the dialectical relationship between its growth...

...Vicente Navarro This is the third part of an article on the distribution of power and the nature of the state in Western industrialized societies and their implications in medicine. Parts I and II were published in the preceding issue of this Journal. Part I presented a critique of contemporary...

...—sometimes trespassing into shibboleth and jargon. This etymological journey has co-evolved with the career of David Mechanic to whom this issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law is devoted. We exploit a provocative metaphor applied to Mechanic's work on the challenges facing medicine...

...Barry Checkoway A previous article in this journal analyzed the efforts of health care consumers to organize around the Health Systems Agency in east central Illinois. This article continues the account by describing how local providers organized in response to these initiatives, elected their own...

...The Health Care Study Group This commentary is the joint product of a group of concerned scholars, many of them long associated with this journal. It assesses the debate over health care reform with the goal of minimizing the many myths and misunderstandings that exist. We address eight issues most...

... contestations to medical authority in public debates or from the political system. The study is based on a qualitative, descriptive analysis of 975 editorials in the medical associations' lead journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Denmark over a period of 60 years. The analysis explores...

... Errata for Anna Kirkland, “The Legitimacy of Vaccine Critics: What Is Left after the Autism Hypothesis?” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 37, no. 1 (February 2012): . On page 80, the text starting with “The foundation was also the source” should read as follows: The foundation was also...

... a funded series of deliberative meetings, research briefs, peer-reviewed journal articles, ad hoc data analyses, and policy analyses. Funded by the California Endowment, the California Health Policy Research Program was created by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley Center for Labor...

...Thomas H. Rice; Roberta J. Labelle In this paper we provide a critique of an article by Roger Feldman and Frank Sloan that appeared in the Summer 1988 issue of this journal. In that article, the authors contend that there is little evidence to support the notion of supplier-induced demand...

...Gerard Wedig; Janet B. Mitchell; Jerry Cromwell Recently, budget-conscious policymakers have shifted their attention to the physician services market and have begun to consider a wide variety of price regulatory schemes for moderating expenditures in this market. In a recent article in this journal...

... argued that some type of (generally unspecified) market system is necessary. Two articles appearing in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law have proposed relatively specific market systems for increasing the supply of organs. In this paper we argue that market systems are at best premature...

...David G. Warren This feature of the journal is intended to promote communication among readers by providing a selected listing of personal milestones and organizational changes, announcements of selected grants offered and awards made, a calendar of national and international meetings, titles...

... of the similarities crossed the developing/developed country divide, although it did appear that in the three case studies from the north, greater attention was paid to the professional legitimacy of institutions, individuals, and journals, while in the three developing countries the existence of trusted personal...

...Joseph P. Newhouse; Robert H. Brook; Naihua Duan; Emmett B. Keeler; Arleen Leibowitz; Willard G. Manning; M. Susan Marquis; Carl N. Morris; Charles E. Phelps; John E. Rolph In a prior article in this journal, John Nyman argues that the effect on health care use and spending found in the RAND Health...

...John A. Nyman One of the most influential “lessons” of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE) is that cost sharing can reduce hospitalizations by about a quarter, with no effect on health for the average adult. In an earlier paper in this journal, I suggested that a portion of this reduction...

..., we identify several pathways by which academic research was incorporated into the debate, primarily through the efforts of academics to publish timely analysis in venues more accessible to advocates than traditional scholarly journals. We conclude that academic research can play a role in advocacy...

...Alan B. Cohen; Colleen M. Grogan; Jedediah N. Horwitt Abstract This special issue of the Journal is devoted to understanding the many roads that lead toward achieving health equity. The eleven articles in the issue portray an America that is struggling with the clash between its historical ideal...