...Mark J. Segal John M. Eisenberg, M.D., Doctors' Decisions and the Cost of Medical Practice: The Reasons for Doctors' Practice Patterns and Ways to Change Them (Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press, 1986), 190 pp., $18.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988...

...-term care hidden in the Balanced Budget Act. This transition happened so imperceptibly, and so unchal- lenged, that it is now possible, if not practically mandatory, to refer knowledgeably about privatization of Social Security and about personal savings accounts...

...- ments, capacity, norms of practice, political processes, and so on. Yet, Light argues, “from the very deregulated nature of U.S. markets have emerged useful lessons, as the leading buyers (that’s American for ‘com- missioners’) face up to all the ways that they did...

...Ariadna García-Prado; Paula González This article presents a thorough analysis of dual practice among physicians who work in both the public and private sectors. A conceptual framework is presented to help the reader understand dual practice and the contexts where it takes place. The article...

... Human Blood to Social Policy . New York : Vintage . Commentary —Response to Rosen, Vining, and Weimer Dehumanizing a Most Human Practice David M. Frankford...

... there are concerns that given resource constraints facing the Indian patent office, this novel feature of Indian patent laws on the books may not have an effect on Indian patent prosecution in practice. We test this by examining the prosecution outcomes of 2,803 applications filed in both India and Europe, coded...

... “technocratic wish” led the United States in the 1980s and 1990s into “a distinctly bureaucratic health care regime.” Rather than scrutinize the practices of other Western health care systems, the United States forged its own path, relying on payment reforms (Medicare's “diagnosis related groups” and “resource...

...Joanna Bisgaier; Karin V. Rhodes; Daniel Polsky Abstract This article explores how a specialty type's local workforce capacity and a specialty practice's location relate to the likelihood of denying care to children covered by Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) while...

... by Doonan remain relevant. Policy makers and scholars will find American Federalism in Practice accessible and informative. Doonan is able to speak to both audiences by drawing on his personal experience in government and as an academic. This book will be of interest to students of health policy, public...

... are the same: to promote human flourishing. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 health and human rights health law bioethics public health ethics surveillance Public health ethics is uncertain in theory and pragmatic in practice. Public health practitioners usually see themselves...

...Arnold J. Rosoff This article examines how courts are likely to apply evidence-based medicine, and particularly clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), in healthcare litigation involving quality-of-care and entitlement-to-benefits (coverage)claims. Exploring the “politics” of the current situation...

...W. Richard Scott James C. Robinson. The Corporate Practice of Medicine: Competition and Innovation in Health Care. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 273 pp. $45.00 cloth; $18.95 paper. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Nelson, Richard R., and Sidney G. Winter. 1982...

...Arnold J. Heidenheimer Frank Honigsbaum, The Division in British Medicine: A History of the Separation of General Practice from Hospital Care, 1911–1968 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979), 445 pp. Copyright © 1982 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1982 786...

... of participation on a national scale. This note reports on a national study of Health Systems Agencies designed to inventory the participation objectives and methods in use, identify major participants and obstacles, and analyze impacts and factors influencing practice in the field. Among the findings...

... Anderson, General Practice Revisited (Lon- don: Tavistock Publications, 1981 ), 228 pp., $28.95 ; Jane Ritchie, Ann Jacoby, and Margaret Bone, Access to Primary Health Care (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1981), 183 pp., $28.95 In contrast to many other Western health care...

...–the map is not the territory. Informed Consent: Ambiguity in Theory and Practice W. D. White, St. Andrews Presbyterian College Abstract. The law of informed consent expresses in legal form the ethical prin- ciple of autonomy and respect for autonomy...

... knowledge will improve clinical practice. It finds that physicians are primarily determinists and that although they reason probabilistically in some instances, they rely on personal experience over research data at these times; that doctors view outcomes research as useful but not definitive and in no way...

...W. P. Welch There are two types of HMOs: prepaid group practices (PGPs) and individual practice associations (IP As). Because of rapid change in the HMO industry, the academic literature, which is based primarily on data from the 1970s, is dated in several ways. The literature has focused on PGPs...

...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...

...Fred Goldman Richard Bailey, Clinical Laboratories and the Practice of Medicine (California: McCutchan Publishing Corporation, 1979): 245 pp. Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Book Review Fred Goldman, Columbia University Richard...