... approach—using sociology, political sci- ence, economics, and philosophy, as well as legal and regulatory theory embedded within these disciplines, the editors provide the analytical framework for a conceptual discussion of where the responsibility...

... these questions remain wide open because we know strikingly little about how evaluation is, in fact, deployed in the field. Surely it would be helpful to invite sociologists and experts in organizational theory to investigate how evaluation gets implemented in practice. How are methods, criteria, guidelines...

...James F. Childress Robert M. Veatch, A Theory of Medical Ethics (New York: Basic Books, 1981), 387 pp., $20.95 Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 178 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Robert M. Veatch,A Theory of Medical Ethics...

...–the map is not the territory. Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Informed Consent: Ambiguity in Theory and Practice W. D. White, St. Andrews Presbyterian College Abstract. The law of informed consent expresses in legal form...

... 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 Restraint of Tkade through Hospital Exclusive Contracts: An Economic Appraisal of the Legal Theory William J. Lynk, Lexecon Inc. Abstract. The growth of antitrust litigation in the health care...

...: Churchill. Commentary Finding a Function for Public Health: Disease Theory or Political Philosophy? Christopher Hamlin University of Notre Dame In her essay, “Miasma...

...-scale health reform efforts continue to fail in the American political landscape. This article presents a normative theory for analyzing federal health policy decision making in the United States. This theory states that values and norms, particularly their level of generality, and the social agreement...

...John R. King Barry Hoffmaster, Benjamin Freedman, and Gwen Foster, Clinical Ethics: Theory and Practice (Clifton, NJ: Humana Press, 1989), 237 pp., $35.00. Lonnie D. Kliever, Dax's Case: Essays in Medical Ethics and Human Meaning (Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1989...

... among diverse policy arenas. Duke University Press 2010 Pedestrian Paths: Why PathDependence Theory Leaves Health Policy Analysis Lost in Space Lawrence D. Brown...

... that a population health legal norm has potential as a framework for theorizing health law, especially in comparison to other proposed health law theories. Yet, its potential turns on the ability of theorists to provide a detailed account of individual rights under a population health framework. To build her...

...Paul B. Ginsburg Alain C. Enthoven, Theory and Practice of Managed Competition in Health Care Finance (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1988), 162 pp., $64.00. Distributed in U.S. by Elsevier Science Publishing Co. Inc. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Reference Jones...

... Theory of the Second Best. Review of Economic Studies 24 (1): 11 -32. Margolis, Howard. 1982 . Selfishness,Altruism, and Rationality . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mechanic, David. 1990 . Commentary: The Role of Sociology in Health Affairs. Health Affairs 9 (1): 85 -97...

...William C. Hsiao © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.4-05 Hsiao 7/20/01 3:38 PM Page 733 Commentary Behind the Ideology and Theory: What Is the Empirical Evidence...

... the Ministry of Health from the direct provision of services such as mental health and long-term care. This article explores how punctuated equilibrium and path dependency coexist in the Israeli case. In doing so, it examines the relevance of concepts provided by various theories of social and institutional...

...Sylvia Tesh This article distinguishes three current theories that purport to account for the etiology of chronic diseases: a germ theory, a lifestyle theory and an environmental theory. Since each of these proposals about disease causality implies a different locus of responsibility for disease...