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... 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...

...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...

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...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...

... Logic 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...

...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...

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... professions in both France and the United States are also subject to intraprofessional forces of division, such as the conflicts which often oppose generalists to specialists. Although organized medicine in France and the United States shares these commonalities, there is a very important difference between...

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...Ellen M. Immergut C. David Naylor, Private Practice, Public Payment: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of Health Insurance, 1911–1966 (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986), 324 pp., $35.00 cloth, $ 15.95 paper. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988...

...Donald W. Light Diana Chapman Walsh, Corporate Physicians: Between Medicine and Management (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987), 267 pp., $30.00 paper Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 References Bosk , C. 1979 . Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical...

...Vicente Navarro This three part article presents an analysis of the distribution of power and of the nature of the state in Western industrialized societies and details their implications in medicine. Part I presents a critique of contemporary theories of the Western system of power; discusses the...

...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...

... medical expertise for the practice of science-based medical evidence; and, the central elements of any meaningful change in legal assessments of expertise in medicine and health care. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Angell, Marcia. 1996 . Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and...