- Drug Addiction and Drug Policy
- Edited by Philip B. Heymann
- Edited by William N. Brownsberger
- This book is the culmination of five years of debate among distinguished scholars in law, public policy, medicine, and biopsychology, about the most difficult questions in drug policy and the study of addictions. Do drug addicts have an illness, or is the addiction under their control? Should they be treated as patients or as criminals? Challenging the conventional wisdom, the authors show that these standard dichotomies are false.
- Hardcover 2001
- Free for All?
- Joseph P. Newhouse
- From 1971 to 1982, researchers at the RAND Corporation devised an experiment to address two key questions in health care financing: how much more medical care will people use if it is provided free of charge? and what are the consequences for their health? This book presents a comprehensive account of the experiment and its findings.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- The Future of Health Policy
- Victor Fuchs
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- Gender Inequalities in Health: A Swedish Perspective
- Edited by Piroska Ostlin
- Edited by Maria Danielsson
- Edited by Finn Diderichsen
- Edited by Annika Harenstam
- Edited by Gudrun Lindberg
- Translated by Dorothy Duncan
- Paperback 2001
- The Health Care Mess
- Julius B. Richmond
- Rashi Fein
- Foreword by Jimmy Carter
- In this important new book, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein recount the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s, showing how the promises of medical advances have not been matched either by financing or by delivery of care. As a new crisis looms, and the existing patchwork of insurance is poised to unravel, American leaders must again take up the question of health care. This book brings the voice of reason and the promise of compromise to that debate.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- Health and Human Rights
- Edited by Stephen P. Marks
- This collection of texts is updated and expanded from the first edition to provide the practitioner, scholar, and advocate with access to the most basic instruments of international law and policy that express the values of human rights for advancing health.
- Paperback 2006
- Hospital Costs in Massachusetts
- Mary Lee Ingbar
- Lester D. Taylor
- Hardcover 1968
- How Fat Works
- Philip A. Wood
- How Fat Works is a concise and up-to-date primer on the workings of fat. It is essential reading for professionals entering careers in medicine and public health administration or anyone wanting a better understanding of one of our most urgent health crises.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2009
- Human Resources for Health
- Appendix by Joint Learning Initiative
- In this analysis of the global workforce, the Joint Learning Initiative, a consortium of more than 100 health leaders, proposes that mobilization and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems everywhere. Ultimately, the crisis in human resources is a shared problem requiring shared responsibility for cooperative action.
- Paperback 2005
- Learning to Dance
- Edited by Alicia Ely Yamin
- This book elucidates how the fields of health and human rights can better work together, including both addressing human rights implications of reproductive health interventions and fostering rights-based policies and laws relating to sexuality and reproductive health.
- Paperback 2005
- Message in a Bottle
- Janet Golden
- A generation has passed since a physician first noticed that women who drank heavily while pregnant gave birth to underweight infants with disturbing tell-tale characteristics. in Message in a Bottle, Golden charts the course of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) through the courts, media, medical establishment, and public imagination.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- Risk-Benefit Analysis
- Richard Wilson
- Edmund A. C. Crouch
- The first edition of this book, published in 1982, was a pioneer in the development of logical, yet simple, analytic tools for discussion of the risks which we all face. This new edition, revised, expanded, and illustrated in detail, should be of value both to professionals in the field and to those who wish to understand these vital issues.
- Paperback 2001
- Total Cure
- Harold S. Luft
- Proposals to reform the health care system typically focus on either increasing private insurance or expanding government-sponsored plans. Guaranteeing that everyone is insured, however, does not create a system with the quality of care patients want, the flexibility clinicians need, and the internal dynamics to continually improve the value of health care. Luft presents a comprehensive new proposal, SecureChoice, which does all that while providing affordable health insurance for every American.
- Hardcover 2008