... clinicians, and anyone interested in the questions raised by new developments in genetics and medicine. Robin Gregg, Shriver Center Gary L. Albrecht. The Disability Business: Rehabilitation in America. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992. 328 pp. $46.00 cloth...

...John H. Noble, Jr. This paper sets forth a model for examining the relationships between fourteen policy and politicoeconomic variables, and the social benefits and costs of rehabilitation. Based on discussions in early 1977 with scholars, ministry officials, trade unionists, and politicians...

.... Spence. 1986 . A Policy Analysis of Attendant Services in Pennsylvania: A Discussion of Current Systems and Future Options. Cambridge, MA: Human Services Research Institute. Batavia , A. I. 1989 . The Payors of Medical Rehabilitation: Eligibility, Coverage, and Payment Policies. Washington, DC...

...Karen J. Merrikin; Thomas D. Overcast Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination against the handicapped in any program receiving federal funds. With its implementing regulations, Section 504 may well apply to the selection of patients for medical treatments...

... monitoring of disciplined physicians or less reliance upon rehabilitative sanctions. Duke University Press 2007 Ameringer, C. 1999 . State Medical Boards and the Politics of Public Protection . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Aon Corporation. 2005 . Hospital Professional Liability...

... less sick elderly patients to a newly created rehabilitation facility. The study's findings suggest that efforts to impose hospital cost containment by exclusively political means are unlikely to succeed. Copyright © 1985 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1985 Power...

... 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...

... be the least desirable policy alternative. Across North America concern has been expressed about the so-called “back-up” of geriatric patients in acute hospitals, focusing on those who have recovered from the acute stage of illness, but for whom prompt transfer is not made to rehabilitation...

... in a system in which services in community, hospital, nursing home, and elsewhere are organizationally linked. Such organizational continuity will in turn be dependent on physicians and colleagues from other disciplines (nursing, social service, rehabilitation) working in collaboration...

... providers and federal, state, and local authorities, on the one hand, and people in need of service-the “consumerson the other. The first group was identified with Rehabilitation International (formerly known as the Interna- tional Society for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled), which came together...

...Victoria Vespe Ozonoff Martin S. Pernick, A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism and Anesthesia in Nineteenth Century America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), 421 pp., $35.00; Glenn Gritzer, and Arnold Arluke, The Making of Rehabilitation: A Political Economy of Medical...

... likely to benefit suggests emphasis on rehabilitative services. Conversely, offering a wide variety of care to the elderly suggests programs which include social services as well as supportive health care and rehabilitation. Consequently, this paper has three purposes: First, to shift...

...) is president of Interstudy. After graduat- ing from Stanford in 1953 he began his career as a clinician practicing pediatric neurology and rehabilitation medicine. He received physical medicine and rehabilitation’s highest award, The Gold Key, and still serves as clinical professor of pediatrics...

... and the patient requiring rehabilitation with continuing care in a setting less technology- intensive than an acute care hospital. These predominantly elderly patients com- prise a growing population subset which needs a specific service system response to fill the interstice between the episodic acute...

... research, for health care clinicians, and anyone interested in the questions raised by new developments in genetics and medicine. Robin Gregg, Shriver Center Gary L. Albrecht. The Disability Business: Rehabilitation in America. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992...

... submitted 1983–1986. Magnetic tape database. Tallahassee, FL: Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. Florida HRS (Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Office of Comprehensive Health Planning and Development). 1988 . Master file of Certifi-cate-of-Need applications...

..., not fam- ily caregivers who say, in our interviews, that they want to provide care in hospitals and rehabilitation centers but need more support and training there as well as at home. Recent experiments with physicians making vis- its to elderly patients in their homes (Korn-Meyer, Toberg, and Boal...

... drivers with crash involvement or convictions for particular traffic violations from driving, or requiring their rehabilitation prior to licensure. Some of these policies are occasionally augmented by public information programs or attempts at persuasion in mass media. The policies that have...

... specialist who performed an arthrogram. The latter two doctors agreed on the final diagnosis: torn cartilage. Surgery is now scheduled, the need for it having been confirmed by a second opinion from a specialist in rehabilitation. When I asked why it took eighteen months and so many different...

... of Alabama Press, 1989. 321 pp. Stephen Percy’s book joins a handful of book-length studies by political sci- entists about the politics of securing rights for persons with disabilities. It covers the whole range of recent rights-based policies (as distinct from rehabilitative ser- vices or income...