...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...

... substance abuse military medicine elderly pain Between 2000 and 2017 more than 165,000 people in the United States died from overdoses attributed to prescription opioids (Gellad, Good, and Shulkin 2017 ), and some groups experienced disproportionate harm from opioid use. Veterans are at high risk...

.... His previous publications have appeared in Health Affairs and Military Medicine. Bhaven Sampat is assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Man- agement at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and also holds courtesy affiliations with Columbia Law School...

..., and Air Force Medical and Nurse Corps. Preventive medicine is a priority, particularly when troops are deployed to areas with endemic diseases to which most Americans have no immunity. Indeed, the civilian population has profited immensely from this aspect of military medicine. The precautionary medical...

...., and G. McCarty. 1992 . Investigational Drugs and Vaccines Fielded in Support of Operation Desert Storm. Military Medicine 157 : 404 -406. Bertollini, R., D. DiLallo, P. Mastroiacovo, and C. Perucci. 1990 . Reduction of Births in Italy after the Chernobyl Accident. Scandinavian Journal of Work...

... and the military—for use in cardiac rehabilitation. Subsequently, a few physicians generalized their experience with cardiac patients to the general population, concluding that aerobic exercise could prevent heart attacks. This idea of exercise as a prophylaxis was seized upon by the public, who were receptive...

...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...

..., race — specifically the Cold War’s impact on the emerging civil rights movement — has become a hot research topic. Two recent books, Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War, by Ellen Leopold, and Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military, by Gerald Kutcher, study...

... . Accident Prevention in California. In Proceedings of the Conference on Social Insurance. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics No. 212. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Glasson , William H. 1918 . Federal Military Pensions in the United States. New York: Oxford...

... Malpractice Claims Against the Army.” Military Law Review 75 : 1 -34, Winter, 1977 . McLaughlin , W. H. “Look at the Massachusetts Malpractice Tribunal System.” American Journal of Law & Medicine 3 : 197 -207, Summer, 1977 . “Negligence per se as a Theory of Action in California...

... (New Press), will appear in 2002. Kawachi is a senior editor in social epidemiology for the international journal Social Science and Medicine. Peter M. Lapsley attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and served as a British army officer. This brought him into close contact with terrorism...

... 974 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law unimpressive that ‘success’ may seem in hindsight. Building on the military metaphors of the time and the glamour of DDT, the malaria campaigners led the federal and state governments deeper into preven- tive medicine and justified...

... Hospital Association periodical. Gordon H. DeFriese, Professor of Social Medicine and Director of the University of North Carolina Health Services Research Center, has been appointed to the Commission on Health and Human Services of the Southern Regional Education Board. He is the Editor...

... systems. Laurence Baker is a professor of health research and policy and chief of health services research at the Stanford University School of Medicine, fellow of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford, and research associate of the National Bureau of Eco- nomic Research in Cambridge, MA. Baker...

.... Elizabeth H. Bradley is assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine. Her primary research interests are in the formation of patient preferences in both long-term and end-of-life care. Her work focuses on studies of the elderly and their use...

... medicine and community health at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. She is the coauthor of Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles (with Stanton A. Glantz, 2000). Sheldon Danziger is the Henry J. Meyer Collegiate Professor of Social Work...

... with Men) . Brasilia : Ministry of Health . Buss P. Gadelha P. . 1996 . Health Care Systems in Transition: An Outline of Brazil's Healthcare System Reforms . Journal of Public Health Medicine 18 ( 3 ): 289 – 295 . CDC . 2009 . HIV among African Americans. Fact Sheet...

... of the 1909 commission. Although this legislation excluded many segments of the population and many basic medical services, it was the first attempt to attain a national standard of health, with the state playing a key role (Earwicker 1981).13 The British experience with military medicine...

... Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References American College of Physicians. 1998 . Understanding the Fraud and Abuse Laws: Guidance for Internists. Annals of Internal Medicine 128 ( 8 ): 678 -684. Bloche , M. G. 1998 . Cutting Waste and Keeping Faith. Annals...

... , and White Joseph . 2009 . “ The Obama Administration's Options for Health Care Cost Control: Hope versus Reality .” Annals of Internal Medicine 150 , no. 7 : 485 – 90 . Mayer Kenneth R. 1995 . “ Closing Military Bases (Finally): Solving Collective Dilemmas through Delegation...