...Lisa Disch Michael W. Shelton. Talk of Power, Power of Talk: The 1994 Health Care Reform Debate and Beyond. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 200 pp.$62.50 cloth. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books...

...Iris Geva-May; Allan Maslove This article attempts to shed light on the complexity inherent in health care reform policies in the context of political power contests that trigger the changes imposed on the health care system. Rather than being solely a response to financial circumstances...

...David Rosner Daniel M. Fox. Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 183 pp. $20.00 cloth. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Annual Report of the Department of Health of the City...

...-2 ): 61 -71. Parmet , W E. Forthcoming. The Police Power and AIDS: The Limits of Legal Precedent. Journal of Health and Human Resources Administration . Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. 1988 . Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human...

...Martha A. Field Carmel Shalev, Birth Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), 201 pp., $19.95. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Books Reviews Carmel Shalev, Birth Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), 201 pp., $19.95. Carmel Shalev believes...

... eliminated. Policy recommendations of a pro-competitive variety are suggested to improve the market's performance instead of regulation (whether governmental or by the profession itself). Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Market Power and Resource...

...Ramón Castellblanch A comparison of the Vermont and Maine cases of attempting to control pharmaceutical prices in the year 2000 shows that the Maine legislators were more successful in challenging pharmaceutical industry political power. This comparison shows that challenging the industry...

... than they used to be, the constraints imposed on them fall within a medical paradigm. From a cultural or social perspective, medicine is more central to the economy and more powerful than ever before. As its centrality and importance increase, there is more at stake, and interests compete more...

.... . 1989 . Medical Work in America. New Haven, CT: Yale University press. Galbraith , J. K. 1956 . American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Light , Donald W. 1988 . Social Control and the American Health Care System. In Handbook of Medical...

... . Commentary Fellow Travelers on a Contested Path: Power, Purpose, and the Evolution of European Health Care Systems Robert G. Evans University of British Columbia Punctuated Equilibrium, Path...

... design. However, provider networks can still vary. To examine the concentration of medical groups, hospitals, and Covered California health plans, we calculated the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) for each of the nineteen rating regions. 4 HHI indicates the market power of a company...

...Gary S. Belkin Enormous changes have recently swept through the organization and delivery of medical care. Scholars and students of the health care system and its politics try to make sense of the shift in power to identify and allocate needed resources away from physicians and toward corporate...

...Donald W. Light Commentary Professionalism as a Countervailing Power Donald W. Light University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers University For the past twenty years, our understanding of the medical profession, particularly in the United States, has...

... power than on institutions. It underlines the key role of financial and knowledge transfers vis-à-vis institutional reforms in effecting social change as well as the potential for state intervention in supporting the development of collective action resources by social groups. © 2005 by Duke...

... to the outcome as published in the final report in 1980. Consumer interests gained few of their objectives, while physicians gained almost all of theirs. For others, results were mixed. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Power and Change: The Case of the Swedish...

.... Findings: The power of grassroots actors in Medicaid politics is constrained by political and structural forces, including philanthropic funding practices, racism, and partisan polarization. Nevertheless, when bottom-up actors effectively exercise power, their involvement in Medicaid politics can transform...

...Cathie J. Martin Linda A. Bergthold. Purchasing Power in Health: Business, the State, and Health Care Politics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990. 213 pp. $37.00 cloth. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 References Alford , Robert . 1975 . Health...

... health policy decisions. This paper presents a case study of policy change in Massachusetts between 1982 and 1988. State officials formulated a strategy to mobilize corporate interests, which were already awakening to the problems of high health care costs, as a countervailing power to the political...

...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...

...Jacob S. Hacker Abstract Given the close division of power in Washington, DC, how might health reformers pursue their bolder aims? In particular, how might they pursue the robust public option that was a centerpiece of Joe Biden's health plan during the campaign? This new iteration of the public...