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...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...

...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...

...David Mechanic In recent years a substantial literature has emerged on the alleged deprofessionalization and proletarianization of physicians. The contention is that corporatization is transforming the practice of medicine, divesting physicians of control over many features of their work...

... of Congressional Action. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Bristow , Lonnie R. 1994 . Contributions from the American Medical Political Action Committee to Members of Congress. New England Journal of Medicine 330 ( 22 ): 1614 , 1615. Cohen , Richard E. , and William Schneider. 1991...

...David Barton Smith W. Michael Byrd and Linda A. Clayton. An American Health Dilemma: Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States, 1900–2000. New York: Routledge, 2002. 675 pp. $35.00 cloth. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...

..., and John P. McIver. 1993 . Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States . New York: Cambridge University Press. Fein, Sidney. 1998 . The Kerr-Mills Act: Medical Care for the Indigent in Michigan, 1960–1965. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 53 (3): 285...

...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...

...Daniel Carpenter Paul Starr . The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry ( 2nd ed.). New York : Basic Books , 2017 . 592 pp. $25.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 To the benefit...

... Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . 560 pp. $45.00 cloth. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 On a steamy August morning, my friend, Bethany, was playing tennis when she felt a small pull in her back. Thinking nothing...

...Robert B. Hudson Christine K. Cassel. Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 254 pp. $27.50 cloth. Duke University Press 2007 Books Christine K...

... is the 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...

... 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 References...

..., and these 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...

...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...

...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...

... Evidence and Public Policy Issues. In Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn’t, ed. S. H. Danziger and D. H. Weinberg. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Bridging the Gap Between Ethical Theory and Practical Decisionmaking in Medicine Barry Hoffmaster, Benjamin Freedman...

...Tom Christoffel Dan E. Beauchamp, The Health of the Republic: Epidemics, Medicine, and Moralism as Challenges to Democracy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), 298 pp. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 References Beauchamp , D. E. 1985 . Community...

.... Klarman , Herbert E. 1963 . Hospital Care in New York City: The Roles of Voluntary and Municipal Hospitals. New York: Columbia University Press. McBride , David . 1993 . Black America: From Community Health Care to Crisis Medicine. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 18 ( 2 ): 319...