...Donley T. Studlar Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer, eds. Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. viii + 394 pp. $55.00 cloth. Michael Pertschuk. Smoke in Their Eyes: Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars...

... also influenced policy. One example is Mrs. Victoria Glover, who showed the power of a letter to the local newspaper. Her 1948 plea for local training programs was a major stimulus to the development of an organized parents’ movement. As this historical perspective indicates, at various...

...Phil Brown The right to refuse treatment is the most controversial of the rights of mental patients, and usually polarizes the movement for mental health reform between providers of care and external activist reformers. A broad alliance supported earlier struggles for recognition of patients...

...Constance Paige; Elisa B. Karnofsky In the early 1980s, the leadership of the antiabortion movement became involved in a campaign to establish legal rights to extraordinary medical care for seriously handicapped newborns. Armed with political contacts in the Reagan administration and Congress...

.... Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Health Policy Implications of the Holistic Health Movement J. Warren Salmon, Hahnemann Medical College, and Howard S. Berliner, New York University A relative of mine recently...

...Mark A. Hall Timothy Stoltzfus Jost. Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 265 pp. $79.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. Duke University Press 2008 Books Steven Epstein...

... mobilization in favor of national health insurance in the nation’s history. Quadagno is one of the few scholars who have gone into any detail about the importance of this senior citizens’ movement to the passage of Medicare. Quadagno’s discussion of the 1970s, when the country arguably came closer...

...Constance A. Nathanson The social movement has become institutionalized as a form of political action. The aim of this article is to evaluate the possibilities presented by this form as a strategy to bring about universal health insurance in the United States. I draw on the work of social movement...

...Gunnar Dybwad Diane Driedger, The Last Civil Rights Movement: Disabled Peoples' International (New York: St. Martin's, 1989), 137 pp., $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 References National Federation of the Blind. 1970 . The First Thirty...

... for the violation of the standards for research on human subjects. Baruch A. Brody, Baylor College of Medicine Andrew Szasz. Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. 216 pages, $39.95 cloth, $16.95...

... groups and social movements in response to AIDS and tuberculosis in Brazil, and when and why the government eventually responded more aggressively to AIDS but not tuberculosis. Evidence from Brazil suggests that the policy influence of interest groups and social movements evolves over time and is more...

...Constance A. Nathanson Social movements organized around perceived threats to health play an important role in American life as advocates for change in health policies and health behaviors. This article employs a framework drawn from social movement and related sociological theories to compare two...

...Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau In this article, post-modern theory is described and applied to health politics with examples from community health organizing, social movements, and health promotion. Post-modernism questions conventional assumptions about concepts such as representation, participation...

... a resurgence of interest in the role of personal habits in producing sickness. This paper examines the history of one facet of the health promotion movement—aerobic exercise, primarily jogging. Initially, concepts in exercise physiology were adapted from non-medical fields—such as competitive sports...

... probability of its occurrence. Accordingly health services research and the forms of regulation with which it is allied threaten to overwhelm the medical humanities movement. Furthermore this scientism precludes the institutionalization of political forums in which we can deliberate on the meaning of medicine...

...Charles Milligan Abstract In any given year, a significant number of individuals will move between Medicaid and qualified health plans (QHP). Known as “churn,” this movement could disrupt continuity of health care services, even when no gap in insurance coverage exists. The number of people who...

... of Brazil suggests that the reasons that governments respond are different at these three levels. International forces, historical institutions, and social health movements were factors that prompted national government responses. At the urban and rural government levels, receiving federal financial...

...Vincent Mor; Joan M. Teno Abstract Hospice began as a social movement outside of mainstream medicine with the goal of helping those dying alone and in unbearable pain in health care institutions. The National Hospice Study, undertaken to test whether hospice improved dying cancer patients' quality...

...Joseph C. Morreale In November of 1970 a major change in public health policy occurred in Quebec: the movement from a mixed private-public system to a completely public system of financing health care (known as Medicare). This policy change had important economic effects on the distribution...