... wishes for end-of-life medical care. Further, the data reveal that the effect of the law varies among identifiable subgroups. Consistent with the theory of search, the article demonstrates that the effects of regulatory efforts that promote the public provision of consumer information are greatest among...

...: Greenwood Press. Books Review Essay Caring for Elderly Parents: Family Relationships, Ageist Medical Care, and the Search for a Dignified End to Life Luisa Margolies. My Mother’s Hip: Lessons from...

.... Editor’s Note Health Policy Analysis and the Search for Hidden Meaning Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But often it’s not. Since Freud first dis- cerned meanings and motives embedded in everyday objects, feelings, and actions, generations of therapists have...

... around PCORI, the research team coded a sample of congressional hearings that contained one or more references to PCORI. Data were collected from the ProQuest legislative database by searching for “Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute” in all categories, including full text after January 1, 2010...

.... The article concludes with a discussion of the implications for future communitarian strategies designed to improve U.S. medicine or social policy. Paradigms Lost: The Persisting Search for Community in U.S...

...Ramesh Raghavan Pete Earley. Crazy: A Father's Search through America's Mental Health Madness. New York: G. P. Putnam, 2006. 372 pp. $25.95 cloth; $15.00 paper. Duke University Press 2007 Allen, M., and V. F. Smith. 2001 . Opening Pandora's Box: The Practical and Legal Dangers...

...John A. Bartlett Christine Grady. The Search for an AIDS Vaccine: Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventive AIDS Vaccine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 193 pp. $26.50 cloth. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...

...James A. Morone The American health care system appears to suffer from higher costs and less access than the health care systems of other industrialized nations. This perception has set social scientists searching for “lessons from abroad.” This paper places the dialogue about health system lessons...

...Daniel M. Fox Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Commentary Two Fringe Discourses in Search of Influence on Policy Daniel M. Fox...

...Timothy E. Cook Monroe E. Price, Shattered Mirrors: Our Search for Identity and Community in the AIDS Era . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. 159 pp. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Reviews 939 situation...

...Uwe E. Reinhardt Rashi Fein, Medical Care, Medical Costs: The Search for a Health Insurance Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986), 240 pp., $20.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 182 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Under what...

... . Marmor T. R. Oberlander J. . 2009 . Health Care: The Fateful Moment . New York Review of Books , August 13 . Morone J. A. 1990 . American Political Culture and the Search for Lessons from Abroad . Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 15 : 129 – 143 . Oberlander...

...Beatrix Hoffman Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove. Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 342 + xxiv pp. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Duke University Press 2009...

... and conflict that differ across the discrete arenas. The zero-sum connotations of the “de” and “re” empowerment of providers under managed care fail to capture the subtlety of providers' search for fresh cultural, economic, and political resources in shifting policy contexts. © 2004 by Duke University Press...

... an analysis of the path-dependent ways that each nation adapted coercion in response to civil society resistance. Each nation has moved up and down a continuum of coercion searching for a policy that balances overcoming passive noncompliance without engendering active resistance . Arriving at different...

... the role of the state; (3) the loss of faith in professional knowledge and the increasingly forceful voice of alternative and “psychiatric survivor” groups; (4) the problem of overload in pluralist and competitive democracy and, related to this, the ubiquitous search for consensus and frictionless...

... sheds light on how the search for legal protection can motivate medical behavior. In so doing, it challenges the view that Quinlan was an important gain for patients’ rights. Instead it views Quinlan ’s chief legacy as its offer to the medical profession of freedom from criminal prosecution when...

..., and allied with advocates for the disabled, the antiabortion movement searched for a test case to guide through the courts. Antiabortion advocate Lawrence Washburn found such a case in Baby Jane Doe, who was being treated at Stony Brook Medical Center. The movement went on to amend the Child Abuse Act...

... definitions can lead to tensions and a search for alternative means of resolving contested meanings. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References Aberbach , J. , R. Putnam, and B. Rockman. 1981 . Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...

.... As the benefits and costs of health care continue to grow, so too will the search for analytic evidence and insights. It is important to recognize that the goal of these efforts should not be to eliminate but rather to enrich political deliberations that govern what societies pay for and get from their health...