...John D. Chappell Leopold Ellen . Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 2008 . 284 pp. $25.95 cloth. Kutcher Gerald . Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military . Chicago...

... practice of defensive medicine, in which physicians order tests and procedures primarily because of fear of malpractice liability. In this article, we discuss the issues raised by different definitions of defensive medicine and propose a working definition to guide measurement of the concept. We also...

...Theodore R. Marmor; Amy Bridges Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 Guest Editor’s Column Introduction to Special Issue: Politics, Medicine, and Health Theodore R. Mannor, Yale University and Amy Bridges, Harvard University In the...

...Jeremiah Hurley David M. Cutler. Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. 152 pp. $25.00 cloth. © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Books Review Essay AARP. AARP International...

...David Barnard Robert A. Burt. Death Is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American Medicine, Law, and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 221 pp. $29.95 cloth. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Burt, Robert A. 1979 . Taking Care of Strangers: The Rule of Law in...

...Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea. What If Medicine Disappeared? Albany: State University of New York Press. 2008. 233 pp. $49.50 cloth; $14.95 paper. Duke University Press 2009 Angell, M. 2004 . The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to...

...Mary Ruggie Susan Giaimo. Markets and Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 2002. 307 pp. $60.00 cloth. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Books Review...

...Ellen Waldman Peter D. Jacobson. Strangers in the Night: Law and Medicine in the Managed Care Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 296 pp.$36.00 cloth. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Bloche, M. Gregg, and David M. Studdert. 2004 . A Quiet Revolution: Law as an Agent of Health...

...Sidney D. Watson Jonathan Engel. Poor People's Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1965 . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 318 pp. $22.95 paper. Ronald J. Angel, Laura Lein, and Jane Henrici. Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis . New York: Cambridge University...

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... resources than is the practice of defensive medicine. These findings may be helpful to health policy makers, physicians, administrators, and legislators considering choices for health care reform in general and for medical liability reform in particular. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996...

... articles, like others, offer considerable illumination but leave much uncovered. Defensive medicine surely exists, but its effects on health care spending and access are unclear. The most important lessons for public policy are that tort reform may be necessary but not sufficient to reduce the problems...

...M. L. Tina Stevens This article explores the cultural politics of medicine and the law through a historical examination of the case of Karen Ann Quinlan. In viewing the Quinlan case as, in part, an unanticipated consequence of the 1968 redefinition of death, this article implicates the importance...

...Howard A. Palley Alice Sardell, The U.S. Experiment in Social Medicine: The Community Health Center Program, 1965–1986 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988), 278 pp., $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Book Reviews 843 analysis pay close...

...Miriam J. Laugesen; Thomas Rice Until recently, physicians were viewed as the dominant player in health policy. Now, however, they compete with many other effective interest groups. This article analyzes this changing role, and specifically how organized medicine has changed its approach to...

... of Medical Ethics . Chicago: American Medical Association. Annas, George J. 1988 . Judging Medicine . Clifton, NJ: Humana Press. Arrow, Kenneth J. 1963 . Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care. American Economic Review 53 (5): 941 -973. Bloche, M. Gregg. 1999 . Clinical...

...Harry Phillips Fogarty International Center of the NIH and the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, Preventive Medicine, USA , New York: Prodist, 1977, 851 pages, $29.95. Copyright © 1977 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1977 Review Essay Preventive Medicine...

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...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 Francisco : Jossey...

...Rick Mathis Howick Jeremy . The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine . Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell , 2011 . 248 pp. $61.95 paper. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Reference Straus Sharon E. . 2005 . Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM . London...