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

...Jonathan Oberlander Throwing Darts: Americans’ Elusive Search for Health Care Cost Control Jonathan Oberlander University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill During the 2009 – 2010 health reform debate, secretary...

...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...

... and debate in higher level undergraduate courses on feminism, postmod- ernism, ethics, and particularly bioethics. The introduction and Diprose’s paper should be, and can be, read by medical students. Gary S. Belkin, Harvard University Christine Grady. The Search...

...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...

...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 Books Pete Earley. Crazy: A Father’s Search...

.... 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 the World of Eldercare. Philadelphia: Temple University Press...

...Mark Schlesinger 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...

...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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... participant names and institutions. In most cases, academic researchers were the only ones for whom Internet searches provided us with actual contact information. This introduced significant bias in whom we were able to contact from the 2016 stakeholder meeting. Second, academic researchers were very hard...

...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...

.... 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...

... for misuse requires an ongoing, searching scrutiny of disease surveillance, remote or hypothetical threats should not serve to undermine this vital public health activity. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 surveillance disease reporting public health privacy confidentiality...

...Jonathan P. West; Michael D. Stevens With the implementation of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act, comprehensive health planning is moving into a new phase. In search of lessons to guide future planning efforts on the part of the Health Systems Agencies (HSAs) established...

... the federal budget. Administrative efforts to balance these objectives have evolved in three phases. The search of the late 1960s for measures to placate providers and win consensus among them, gave way in the early and mid-1970s to new organizations and programs (Professional Standards Review Organizations...

..., whether the result of all-payer regulation or competition, requires a stronger civil service than America seems capable of providing. A comparison with the experience in defense demonstrates the important limitations in applying incentive-based models in policy areas with conflicting goals. The search...

..., 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...