Medicolegal issues Books

Book SynopsisProposes a set of healthcare solutions that address access, efficiency, and quality. This book focuses on the plight of the uninsured, and proposes a direction that promises to make premier healthcare for Americans a national reality. It is suitable for those trying to make sense of the thorny issues of healthcare reform.Trade Review"Code Red is one of the two or three best books on the economics of health care. It is especially strong on how the current mess evolved historically and what has been tried (or not tried) along the way. This is the place to go to understand PSROs or what happened to the HMO revolution...This book won't make anyone fully happy, but it is a must for fans of health care policy."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution "Many books and articles address improvements to the US health care system and the provision of health insurance to all citizens ... [Dranove's] goal ... is to review public sector efforts to deal with access, costs, and quality... [I]t is well written ... and does a good job of providing insights into the national debate... In the end, having a quality system requires an efficient public-private partnership."--R. L. Jones, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, for CHOICE "With health care as a key issue in the presidential campaign, it is refreshing to read a balanced, well-reasoned essay on the ailments of our healthcare system, along with some possible remedies. Code Red is an excellent read for health care professionals and policy wonks: it is suitable for anyone interested in the debate, though it employs a modicum of vocabulary from Dranove's discipline, economics."--Michael P. Meacham, Centre Daily TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii PART 1: DIAGNOSING THE CONDITION 1 Introduction 3 Chapter One: An Accidental Healthcare System 8 Chapter Two: Paging Doctor Welby 30 Chapter Three: Therapy for an Ailing Health Economy 58 Chapter Four: The Managed Care Prescription 83 PART 2: SEARCHING FOR CURES 119 Chapter Five: Self-Help 121 Chapter Six: The Quality Revolution 147 Chapter Seven: Mending the Safety Net 176 Chapter Eight: Reviving the American Healthcare System 205 Appendix: An Alphabet Soup of Healthcare Acronyms 235 Notes 239 Bibliography 255 Index 269

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Library Journal's Best Sci-Tech Books, Health Sciences category for 2009 Recommended Reading, 2011 James A. Hamilton Award, American College of Healthcare Executives "No one who comes to Taming the Beloved Beast with an open mind can deny the intellectual and ethical power of the questions he poses. He probes issues central to resolving the enormous problems and inequities--not to mention the looming financial threats--that bedevil American medical care."--Beryl Lieff Benderly, Science "While bringing insightful ethical, social, political and economic perspectives to this timely, well-documented discourse of the ballooning costs of American health care and Medicare, Callahan concentrates on the growing costs of medical technology, which, along with uncontrolled governmental healthcare spending, threaten to drag this country into financial crisis... This excellent overview of reaching the goal of universal health care is a good resource for anyone concerned with the future of health care and its economics."--Library Journal "The rising cost of health care has preoccupied policy makers and the public for decades. Callahan contends that the principal cause of rising costs lies in Americans' infatuation with new medical technologies... Callahan argues that the U.S. must rethink the goals of medical technologies and accept new limits on the availability and appropriate use of expensive medical treatments."--Choice "This book reflects the author's expertise not only as a researcher but also as a philosopher. He presents his arguments, discusses alternatives, and anticipates counterarguments, all with ample citations... [T]his book will engage readers seeking to gain insight on health care reform and cost control from the perspective of a pragmatic philosopher."--Leslie R. Pyenson, Psychiatric ServicesTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 CHAPter 1: Medicare on the Ropes 10 CHAPter 2: Taming the Beloved Beast: Medical Technology 37 CHAPter 3: Getting Serious about Costs and Technology 67 CHAPter 4: Competition: The Fix That Will Fail 92 CHAPter 5: The Cohabitation of Medicine and Commerce 120 CHAPter 6: "Medical Necessity": An All-But-Useless Concept 143 CHAPter 7: Redefining "Medical Necessity": From Individual Good to Common Good 171 CHAPter 8: Getting Out from Under: The Politics of Pain 201 Coda 229 Notes 235 Index 257

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Book SynopsisIs there a crisis in Canadian health care? This book provides a concise introduction to the fundamentals of health care in Canada and examine various ideas for reforming the system sensibly.Table of ContentsForewordPreface1 Declining Public Confidence in Canada’s Health Care System2 What is Public and What is Private?3 Memes and Myths4 Canaries in the Mine: Waiting for Care5 Closer to Home and Out of Pocket: Shifting Sites of Care6 The Future: Rigid, Resilient, or Retail Reform ChoicesEndnotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Carefair, Paul Kershaw urges us to resist this private/public distinction, and makes a convincing case for treating caregiving as a matter of citizenship that obliges and empowers everyone in society.Trade ReviewThis is a book well worth reading. It squarely addresses a policy issue that is fundamental to the pursuit of quality and equity, it is theoretically engaged while making concrete policy proposals, and it is closely argued ... That stated, Carefair is an important and stimulating book. It should be widely read. -- Hugh Armstrong, Carleton University * Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, July-August 2006 *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1 Lamenting the Lazy Lavatory Syndrome: Political Theory, Policy,and Civic Virtue 2 The American ExpressTM Model of Citizenship: The Social LiberalTradition 3 The Celebrated Idiot: The Obliged Citizen 4 The Idiot’s Acumen 5 Premature Celebration 6 Private Time for Social Inclusion 7 Carefair 8 The Politics of Time 9 From LEGOTM to Teeter-Totter: Social Investment in Work-LifeBalance Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis intoxicating look at the history of drug regulation in Canada reveals how a variety of social and political forces converged at the turn of the twentieth century to transform both public attitudes toward, and access to, narcotics.Trade ReviewIn Malleck’s brilliant account we can see how commercial interests both combined and competed with professionals and sellers to influence Canada’s drug laws … As Canadians debate how marijuana should be designated—legal or illegal, medicine or recreational drug or both—Malleck provides a fascinating description of a similar journey taken by pain medications such as opium and cocaine at the beginning of the last century. His book provides a useful history to help us navigate today’s discussions about who should grow and sell safe and affordable marijuana. -- Colleen Fuller, a researcher and writer focused on health and pharmaceutical policy * Alberta Views *Malleck’s extensive use of primary sources convincingly establishes this context and describes the dominant origin story of Canada’s drug laws that has not frequently been told. -- Noah Wernikowski * Saskatchewan Law Review *Malleck vividly depicts how sensationalism, misunderstanding, and the threat to the practise of medicine fuelled the new concept of addiction distinct from insanity and moral depravity. Malleck’s scouring of all available records provides a rich understanding of how the social and cultural factors surrounding opium in Canada set the stage for the moral debate over drug use … His thorough analysis and ability to draw on a mountain of records to seamlessly tell the story provides the reader with a new found appreciation of the complex development of drug legislation in the modern era. -- Joel Rudewicz * Active History *[A] close study of how doctors, pharmacists, bureaucrats, and policy-makers wrestled over the control of opiates in the decades leading to the first Opium Act of 1908 … When Good Drugs Go Bad will be of interest to scholars exploring the history of drugs and their regulation while also adding to our understanding of state formation and professionalization during the nineteenth century. Its multi-regional focus on Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia serves to nationalize these issues. Malleck also addresses and critically challenges the association in British Columbia between anti-Chinese sentiments and opium that, he argues, has distorted events by insisting that the Opium Act was a reaction to racial tensions. Instead, by broadening the regional lens, Malleck shifts the story to a contest over professional authority. -- Erika Dyck * BC Studies *When Good Drugs Go Bad deepens our understanding of the connections that could be so easily drawn between the body, race, medicine and the nation in early twentieth century Canada. -- Yvan Prkachin, Harvard University * Left History, Vol. 21 No. 1, Spring-Summer 2016 *[When Good Drugs Go Bad] is a well-written and well-researched book… Readers will learn much about the “awesome, awe-inspiring, and awful substance” that was opium... Readers may also find that Malleck’s discussion of “danger” and addiction fears with this drug in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries resonates with today’s opioid debates. -- Shelley McKellar, University of Western Ontario * Pharmacy in History, Vol 60, No 3 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Its Baneful Influences1 Medicating Canada before Regulation2 Opium in Nineteenth-Century Medical Knowledge3 Canada’s First Drug Laws4 Chinese Opium Smoking and Threats to the Nation5 Medicine, Addiction, and Ideas of Nation6 Madness and Addiction in the Asylums of English Canada7 Proprietary Medicines and the Nation’s Health8 Regulating Proprietary Medicine9 Drug Laws and the Creation of IllegalityConclusion: Baneful InfluencesNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisSince the introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, individuals and organizations have increasingly turned to the courts to try to bring about policy change in areas such as health care. Health Care and the Charter explores the systematic use of Charter litigation in the area of health care and the ultimate policy impact of the resulting judicial decisions. Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni examine three of the most controversial Supreme Court decisions in recent years. Eldridge (1997) and Auton (2004) invited the Court to extend the scope of publicly funded services, while Chaouilli (2005) asked the Court to allow private health services. This book explores the paths that brought litigants to the Court, the arguments and evidence they mustered to support their positions, and the substance of the victory or defeat the Court provided them. The volume then assesses the ultimate impact of these cases in both Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Supreme Court and Health Policy: An OverviewEldridge v British Columbia: Effective Communication and the Sounds of SilenceAuton v British Columbia: Reversal of FortuneChaoulli v Quebec: The Last Line of Defence for CitizensConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Cases Cited; Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume highlights abortion experiences in the post-Morgentaler era and links new approaches to abortion history and research to the growing movement for reproductive justice.Trade ReviewAbortion is unique in that it ties together the perspectives of scholars in history, politics, and law, as opposed to other compilations that focus on works from one particular field, echoing the intersectionality of modern day reproductive justice framework. -- Megan Siu, Community Developer & Educational Specialist Centre, CPLEA * Canadian Law Library Review *[…][i]n 2019 it is ever more evident that a broader concept of reproductive justice is one that encompasses not only our reproductive health but legal, social and economic justice as well. This book helps move us in that direction. -- Amanda Le Rougetel * Herizons *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett, and Travis HayPart 1: History1 Different Histories: Reproduction, Colonialism, and Treaty 7 Communities in Southern Alberta, 1880–1940 / Kristin Burnett2 Not Guilty but Guilty? Race, Rumour, and Respectability in the 1882 Abortion Trial of Letitia Munson / Rebecca Beausaert3 Abortion and Birth Control on the Canadian Prairies: Feminists, Catholics, and Family Values in the 1970s / Erika DyckPart 2: Experience4 He Is Still Unwanted: Women’s Assertions of Authority over Abortion in Letters to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada / Shannon Stettner5 Abortion on Trial: Abortion Tribunals in the 1970s and 1980s / Beth Palmer6 The Dark, Well-Kept Secret: Abortion Experiences in the Maritime Provinces / Katrina Ackerman7 When Research Is Personal and Political: Researchers Reflect on the Study of Abortion / Marion Doull, Christabelle Sethna, Evelyne Morrissette, and Caitlin ScottPart 3: Politics8 Functionally Inaccessible: Historical Conflicts in Legal and Medical Access to Abortion / Frances E. Chapman and Tracy Penny Light9 Morgentaler and the Technological Production of Embodiment / Jen Rinaldi10 Between a Woman and Her Doctor? The Medicalization of Abortion Politics in Canada / Rachael Johnstone11 Subverting the Constitution: Anti-abortion Policies and Activism in the United States and Canada / Lori Brown, J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, and Colleen MacQuarriePart 4: Discourse and Reproductive Justice12 The Future of Pro-choice Discourse in Canada / Kelly Gordon and Paul Saurette13 Reproductive Justice in Canada: Exploring Immigrant Women’s Experiences / Laura Salamanca14 Toxic Matters: Vital and Material Struggles for Environmental Reproductive Justice / Sarah Marie WiebeConclusion / Kristin Burnett and Shannon Stettner

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Book SynopsisWhy, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-mandated insurance? Did labor's weakened condition prevent it from endorsing national health insurance? Marie Gottschalk demonstrates here...Trade ReviewAn explosively important book.... Marie Gottschalk's marvelous book... relieves us of the need to conjecture and hypothesize in trying to make sense of the little that we really knew of what was going on at the highest levels of the AFL-CIO ten years ago. She lifts the veil and at last we can all understand—and share in—the anger of those courageous union leaders within the federation who steadfastly stood firm for a universal, single-payer system of health care.... The working rank-and-file will ignore this book at their own peril. * The Harbinger *Gottschalk has written an incisive analysis of the failure of President Clinton's health reform proposal... Her account provides superior perspective on the debacle, because it roots the debate about employment-based health insurance plans in developments in labor-management relations and in the accommodation of leading Democrats to the business agenda that surged to the fore in the 1970s and 1980s. The book is written with verve and theoretical sophistication. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *Gottschalk provides a thorough analysis of the political climate in which organized labor must operate. * Boston Book Review *In The Shadow Welfare State, Marie Gottschalk recounts labor's half century-long fight for decent health care coverage through both collective bargaining and political action. More than most writers, she brings these two sides of the coin together to analyze both the fragility of the private welfare state, even for those who are covered by it, and the closely related political weakness of labor in the U.S. * Labor Notes *Several solid studies of the failure of the Clinton health reform campaign of the early '90s attempt to assess the role of all the key players. Gottschalk, a University of Pennsylvania political scientist, focuses on the interaction of labor and business in that debate.... A cogent, provocative analysis of a particular battle that also raises larger questions for the future. * Booklist *This very well written and engaging book touches myriad issues in the history of labor, social democracy, and American political institutions.... All labor scholars will find her book a rich source of analysis and information on a wide variety of topics. * RI/IR, *

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Book SynopsisHow has France assure universal coverage while protecting patient and practitioner freedoms? What can Americans learn from the French experience, and what can the French learn from the U.S. example?Trade Review"The health care systems of France and the United States began the 20th century looking very much alike, then gradually moved in different directions while retaining a surprising number of common features. Dutton believes that both countries would benefit from taking a careful look at their similarities and differences. Both systems utilize a public/private mix of financing, maintain the fee-for-service basis for physician reimbursement, and hold out the ideals of physician practice autonomy and patient choice of doctor. Dutton says that the United States is almost inadvertently expanding coverage but with little planning; at the same time, the French are adapting U.S. managed-care techniques in an attempt to keep down costs and improve efficiency in a system already offering universal coverage. . . . This distinctive, readable, and well-organized history is recommended for public and academic libraries, especially where health-care reform is a hot topic."—Library Journal"In Differential Diagnoses Paul V. Dutton tells the story of two nations over the course of an entire century. This remarkable book is one part history, one part policy analysis, and it is held together by strong conceptual glue. Differential Diagnoses is distinguished by Dutton's smooth, jargon-free writing, its accessibility, its richness of anecdote, its blending of original archival research with synthetic research drawn from several disciplines, and its timely and level-headed diagnosis and prescriptions for change."—Timothy B. Smith, Queen's University"Paul Dutton exhibits superb scholarship and insight on the evolution of health care financing and organization in France and the United States. His lucid book demonstrates that France's health system is more relevant for the United States than the health systems of the usual suspects—Canada, Germany, and Britain. It should be read by all health policy analysts, scholars, and social reformers who are searching for ways to achieve universal health insurance coverage in the United States."—Victor G. Rodwin, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Wagner/NYU; and Director, World Cities Project, International Longevity Center-USA"By first exposing the stereotypes and then carefully exploring the distinct histories of health care provision in the United States and France, Paul Dutton provides unique and valuable insight into how both countries can better address their respective health crises."—Jeremy Shapiro, Fellow and Director of Research, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution

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Book SynopsisSince the first fertilization of a human egg in the laboratory in 1968, scientific and technological breakthroughs have raised ethical dilemmas and generated policy controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Embryo, stem cell, and cloning research have provoked impassioned political debate about their religious, moral, legal, and practical implications. National governments make rules that govern the creation, destruction, and use of embryos in the laboratorybut they do so in profoundly different ways.In Embryo Politics, Thomas Banchoff provides a comprehensive overview of political struggles about embryo research during four decades in four countriesthe United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Banchoff's book, the first of its kind, demonstrates the impact of particular national histories and institutions on very different patterns of national governance. Over time, he argues, partisan debate and religious-secular polarization have come to overshadow ethicalTrade ReviewAs Thomas Banchoff notes in Embryo Politics, 'the human embryo only slowly emerged as an object of ethical controversy.' This lucid and well-written book relates a comparative history of this controversy in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France. -- Simon Cole * Technology and Culture *Banchoff does not fall prey to the allures of science fiction and he avoids sensationalism, but his book is sensational. It is an exciting read and should generate a great deal of public interest because it sets out with clarity the many strands, both ethical and political, that make up in vitro fertilization (IVF), stem cell research and cloning. -- Gail Grossman Freyne * Conscience *Banchoff's historical outline of these debates over embryo research and use is accurate and engaging, showing clearly how the different political backgrounds against which they took place shaped their later contours. He also addresses the difficult moral questions surrounding the moral status of embryos, how the law should respond to this status, and how these questions intersect with the need for biomedical progress where such 'progress depends on research on embryos. This is a very clear, well-written, engaging volume, and one that could be read with profit and interest by anyone curious about what is one of the most pressing debates of the moment. Summing Up: Highly recommended for all readership levels. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Emergence of Ethical Controversy 2. First Embryo Research Regimes 3. The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research 4. Stem Cell and Cloning Politics ConclusionBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn America's Welfare State, Edward Berkowitz offers a concise and informative historical overview of this costly and often frustrating area of domestic policy.Trade ReviewReaders of America's Welfare State will derive an excellent understanding of the complexity surrounding social welfare in the late 20th-century US. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Choice Useful for scholars and students both for its insights into the policy-making process and for its account of how American social policy arrived at the sorry state we find it in today. -- Jeffrey L. Davidson Contemporary Sociology A remarkably successful book... powerfully written and clearly of interest to scholars and policy experts alike. -- Ellis W. Hawley Labor History Berkowitz has gone behind the written statute and the official press release to find out who believed what and who did what to effect changes in the process and substantive aspects of welfare statism. This book is a worthy addition to the literature. -- Robert J. Lampman Industrial and Labor Relations ReviewTable of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionPart I. The Social Security CrisisChapter 2. Inventing Social Security, 1935Chapter 3. The Triump of Social Security, 1936-1954Chapter 4. The Day of ReckoningPart II. The Frustrations of Welfare ReformChapter 5. Welfare's State, 1935-1967Chapter 6. Welfare Restated, 1967-1988Part III. The Mirage of National Health InsuranceChapter 7. Medicare and Health Policy, 1935-1989Part IV. ConclusionChapter 8. Long-Term Care of the Welfare StateA Note on the SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisBioethics in a Liberal Society is essential reading for all those interested in understanding how bioethics is practiced within our society.Trade ReviewMay's book is a helpful overview and introduction to the political framework of bioethics decision making within a liberal society. It touches explicitly on the issues of perceived and actual lack of competence, substituted decision making, advanced directives and the important roles of ethics committees and consultants. There is no doubt that this book marks an important contribution to the literature. -- Christopher Newell, Ph.D. MetapsychologyTable of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Liberal Framework I Patient Autonomy 2 Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent 3 Patient Responsibility for Decision Making 4 Advance Directives: Extending Autonomy for Patients II Professional Rights of Conscience 5 Beneficence, Abandonment, and the Duty to Treat 6 Rights of Conscience in the Physician-Patient Relationship 7 Conclusion: Health Care Ethics Committees and Consultants in a Liberal Framework References Index

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Book SynopsisPresenting a wide array of perspectives, this book emphasizes the need to ensure that research into genetics research does not result in discrimination against people on the basis of their DNA.Trade ReviewBringing the concerns of different communities together in a single volume makes it possible to appreciate the mosaic of human issues more fully and forces us to anticipate the challenges that may arise-and that will require our attention-as the genetic revolution proceeds... A much needed antidote to the current genetic hoopla. -- Doris Teichler Zallen Journal of the American Medical Association A cautious look at the effects of genetic discoveries on society... The issues raised by this book are valid, and all scientists should be aware of them. I often found myself nodding in agreement. -- Jeffrey C. Long New England Journal of Medicine The authors present several thought-provoking issues in regard to prenatal genetic screening and selective abortion. It's a great contribution to the field. -- Fernando I. Rivera Contemporary Sociology This book superbly and successfully fills its purpose-to show the need for dialogue between researchers, health care professionals, communities, and individuals regarding various aspects of genetic technology. Choice 2003

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Book SynopsisConcluding with a cautionary call for increased regulation, Reprogenetics introduces fact, history, and reason into a public discussion of complex and vexing issues.Trade ReviewAn essential reference, this also will extend into classroom discussion and debates. Midwest Book Review 2007 A useful addition to the library of anyone interested in reprogenetics and particularly the future of legislation and policy on research and application of reprogenetic technology. -- Constance Perry, Ph.D. Metapsychology 2008Table of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefacePart I: The Historical and Regulatory LandscapeChapter 1. On Drawing Lessons from the History of EugenicsChapter 2. Governmental Regulation of Genetic Technology, and the Lessons LearnedChapter 3. Oversight of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Last Twenty YearsPart II: Ethical Issues in ReprogeneticsChapter 4. Market Transactions in Reprogenetics: A Case for RegulationChapter 5. Stem Cells, Clones, Consensus, and the LawPart III: International Regulation of Reprogenetics Chapter 6. The Governance of Reprogenetic Technology: International ModelsChapter 7. Regulating Reprogenetics in the United KingdomChapter 8. The Evolution of Public Policy on Reprogenetics in CanadaPart IV: Regulating Reprogenetics in the United StatesChapter 9. A Brief History of Public Debate about Reproductive Technologies: Politics and CommissionsChapter 10. Possible Policy Strategies for the United States: Comparative LessonsChapter 11. The Development of Reprogenetic Policy and Practice in the United States: Looking to the United KingdomChapter 12. Reprogenetics and Public Policy: Reflections and RecommendationsIndex

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Book SynopsisAddiction Treatment provides a solid foundation for understanding addiction as a treatable illness and for establishing a framework for effective treatment in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewAn impressive and imperative read for students and professionals in the addiction field... Highly recommended. Choice 2008 Addiction Treatment provides a broad overview of where the field seems to be heading and achieves its goal by provoking debate over the best way to get there. JAMA 2008 The editors do an excellent job of putting together a collection of essays from leading experts in the field of addiction. The provocative essays and the way that the chapters are organized creates a book that is easy to read and will certainly stimulate thought and further discussion about what is possible for addiction treatment in the twenty-first century... An outstanding resource and is appropriate for students, health care professionals, researchers, policy makers, and laypersons interested in addiction science and health care policy. -- Mary E. Cooley Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Newsletter 2008 The book does provoke thought and causes readers to contemplate a number of relevant questions. It will be most useful to those with a good understanding of both the science and public health policies surrounding the treatment for addictions. Doody's Review Service 2008 A valuable contribution to the literature. -- Christian Perring Metapsychology 2009 Addiction and Art may be the most important art book written this year. -- Bob Dugan Big ThinkTable of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction: Drug Addiction in America: Challenges and OpportunitiesPart I. Treatment Models and Emerging Science1. Is Addiction a Problem of Self-Control?2. The P.R.I.M.E. Theory of Motivation as a Possible Foundation for the Treatment of Addiction3. A Future for the Prevention and Treatment of Drug Abuse: Applications of Computer-Based Interactive Technology4. Office-Based Treatment of Addiction and the Promise of Technology5. High-Impact Paradigms for the Treatment of Addiction6. New Approaches to the Treatment of Stimulant and Other Substance Abuse: A Behavorial Perspective7. Using Diminished Autonomy over Tobacco Use to Identify Smokers in Need of Assistance with Cessation8. New Directions for Tobacco Cessation Therapies9. Could Nutritional Factors Influence the Development and Maintenance of Addiction to Nicotine?Part II. Special Populations10. Addiction and Pregnancy11. Perspectives on the Risk-Benefit Ratio of Pharmacological Treatment for Adolescent Chemical Addiction12. The Inhibitory Effect of Insurance Statutes on the Provision of Alcohol Screening and Intervention Services in Trauma Center13. Addiction and Multiple Morbidities in HIV-Positive Patients14. Providing Access to Treatment for Opiod Addiction in Jails and Prisons in the United States15. Addiction Art and Science: Two Sides of Humanity16. Addiction, Recovery, and Art: My StoryPart III: Health Care, Social, and Policy Issues17. Advancing the Science Base for the Treatment of Addiction18. "Going UPstream": Thoughts for Substance Abuse Professionals19. In Praise of Stigma20. Addiction as Disease: Policy, Epidemiology, and Treatment Consequences of a Bad Idea21. Parsing the Future of Behavioral Intervention for Drug Abuse: Clinical Science and Policy22. Protecting Patient Confidentiality in Alcohol and Drug Treatments23. Deterring Sales and Marketing of Alcohol to Youth: The Role of Litigation24. How Social Policy Can Foster Advances in the Treatment of Addiction: Tobacco Smoke Pollution and the Hospitality Industry as an Example25. The Role of the Food and Drug Administration in Accelerating the Development and Release of New Medications for the Addictions26. Smoking Status as the New Vital Sign: Progress and ChallengesEpilogueIndex

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Book Synopsispopulation, and present a balanced-and reassuring-assessment of the future.Trade ReviewJames Schulz and Robert Binstock unquestionably take places of honor among the elders of the gerontological tribe. Decades of study, teaching, civic engagement, writing, and speaking to peers, lawmakers, and informed citizens have secured their reputations as knowledgeable, judicious, respected experts on the economics and politics of aging, respectively. -- W. Andrew Achenbaum, PhD Journal of Aging and Social Policy 2008 This is a useful primer for any person who wants a sneak preview of the difficult days ahead. -- Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive 2008 This timely book offers a worthwhile read for anyone interested in learning about the history of pension plans in the United States, their administration, and their economic impact on retirees. -- Marvin Pelaez Monthly Labor Review 2009 Highly recommended. Midwest Book Review 2008Table of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition1. Baby Boomers and the Merchants of Doom2. The Phony Threat of Population Aging3. The Search for Security with Dignity4. Dealing with Risk5. The Company Pension: Altruism or Self-Interest?6. The Pension Lottery: Personal Pension Accounts7. To Work or Not to Work: That Is the Question8. Health and Longevity: What Lies Ahead?9. A Gerontocracy? The Politics of Aging10. Framing the Issues for an Aging NationNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisBioethics in a Liberal Society is essential reading for all those interested in understanding how bioethics is practiced within our society.Trade ReviewMay's book is a helpful overview and introduction to the political framework of bioethics decision making within a liberal society. It touches explicitly on the issues of perceived and actual lack of competence, substituted decision making, advanced directives and the important roles of ethics committees and consultants. There is no doubt that this book marks an important contribution to the literature. -- Christopher Newell, Ph.D. MetapsychologyTable of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Liberal Framework I Patient Autonomy 2 Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent 3 Patient Responsibility for Decision Making 4 Advance Directives: Extending Autonomy for Patients II Professional Rights of Conscience 5 Beneficence, Abandonment, and the Duty to Treat 6 Rights of Conscience in the Physician-Patient Relationship 7 Conclusion: Health Care Ethics Committees and Consultants in a Liberal Framework References Index

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Book SynopsisPlanning and evaluating any health care program is a formidable task: how do you measure the health of a population? This fundamental question has been approached from various perspectives in medical, administrative, and economic studies. This book provides a guide to health measurement literature and relates it to Ontario's current and prospective policy choices and to the federal context of health indicators and indices to existing statistics in Ontario in a county-by-county survey of the province's health care. He also outlines the kinds of information essential to health assessment but not currently available.The book as a whole emphasizes the importance of health care measurement in the humane and efficient planning of health services. It will be of interest to all concerned with the practice of medicine in the 1980s and the planning of health services at the federal and provincial levels, as well as to those with a special interest in health from the economic, political

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important contribution to the fields of regulatory politics and food policy."—A. Bryce Hoflund, Political Science Quarterly"Thomas has written an exceptionally good synthesis of the history of food regulation in America and contextualized the changing regulatory regime. . . . This book's provocative arguments and detailed examples make it ideal for students and researchers of public health-related disciplines, food regulatory agencies, and those who are interested in American food safety regulations."—Fremont Hung, Food, Culture and Society"With this new awareness of the processes and politics behind the food in their pantries and refrigerators, readers of In Food We Trust will be hard pressed to subscribe to the myth of the safety of the national food supply."—Jessica Derleth, Journal of American Culture“Courtney Thomas has written a valuable and significant book that examines the evolving challenge of governing complex networked food safety systems that involve actors at multiple levels and with varied interests.”—Bryan McDonald, author of Food Security “In Food We Trust is as interesting as it is frightening. Like Upton Sinclair before her, Courtney Thomas is aiming for both the public’s mind and stomach and hits both spot on.”—Nik Heynen, professor of geography at the University of Georgia and coeditor of Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Twentieth-Century ProblemPart 1: The U.S. Food Safety Regulatory Regime1. Escape from the Jungle2. The Cranberry Crisis3. Science and Politics CollidePart 2: Crises, Scandals, and Food Safety Regulation4. Models of Food Safety Regulation5. Pandora's Jack in the Box6. From Spinach to GAPsPart 3: A New Regime for the Twenty-first Century7. The Peanut Butter Crisis8. The Future of Food SafetyEpilogue: A Twenty-first-Century MandateAppendix A. Recall List from 2008-9 Peanut OutbreakAppendix B. Food Safety Proposals before the 111th CongressNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the structure and impact of the SARS epidemic, and its short- and medium-range implications for an interconnected, globalized world. In so doing, it poses a question of the greatest possible significance: Can we learn from SARS before the next pandemic?Trade Review"SARS in China not only makes a significant contribution to China studies but also provides important clues about the state of preparation for global health challenges such as avian flu."—China Review International"This book has lined up a remarkable team of authors to try to answer the question: what can we learn from SARS before the next pandemic? And its value lies in the significant issues that it has highlighted."—The China ReviewTable of ContentsContents Preface vii Contributors xi Introduction: SARS in Social and Historical Context 1 arthur kleinman and james l. watson Part I. The Epidemiological and Public Health Background 1. The Epidemiology of SARS 17 megan murray 2. The Role of the World Health Organization in Combating SARS, Focusing on the Efforts in China 31 alan schnur 3. SARS and China's Health-Care Response: Better to Be Both Red and Expert! 53 joan kaufman Part II. Economic and Political Consequences 4. Is SARS China's Chernobyl or Much Ado About Nothing? 71 tony saich 5. SARS and China's Economy 105 thomas g. rawski 6. SARS in Beijing: The Unraveling of a Cover-Up 122 erik eckholm Part III: Social, Moral, and Psychological Consequences 7. Psychological Responses to SARS in Hong Kong-- Report from the Front Line 133 dominic t. s. lee, m.d., and yung kwok wing, mrcpsych 8. Making Light of the Dark Side: SARS Jokes and Humor in China 148 hong zhang Part IV: Globalization and Cross-Cultural Issues 9. SARS and the Problem of Social Stigma 173 arthur kleinman and sing lee 10. SARS and the Consequences for Globalization 196 james l. watson Notes 205 Index 235

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the structure and impact of the SARS epidemic, and its short- and medium-range implications for an interconnected, globalized world. In so doing, it poses a question of the greatest possible significance: Can we learn from SARS before the next pandemic?Trade Review"SARS in China not only makes a significant contribution to China studies but also provides important clues about the state of preparation for global health challenges such as avian flu."—China Review International"This book has lined up a remarkable team of authors to try to answer the question: what can we learn from SARS before the next pandemic? And its value lies in the significant issues that it has highlighted."—The China ReviewTable of ContentsContents Preface vii Contributors xi Introduction: SARS in Social and Historical Context 1 arthur kleinman and james l. watson Part I. The Epidemiological and Public Health Background 1. The Epidemiology of SARS 17 megan murray 2. The Role of the World Health Organization in Combating SARS, Focusing on the Efforts in China 31 alan schnur 3. SARS and China's Health-Care Response: Better to Be Both Red and Expert! 53 joan kaufman Part II. Economic and Political Consequences 4. Is SARS China's Chernobyl or Much Ado About Nothing? 71 tony saich 5. SARS and China's Economy 105 thomas g. rawski 6. SARS in Beijing: The Unraveling of a Cover-Up 122 erik eckholm Part III: Social, Moral, and Psychological Consequences 7. Psychological Responses to SARS in Hong Kong-- Report from the Front Line 133 dominic t. s. lee, m.d., and yung kwok wing, mrcpsych 8. Making Light of the Dark Side: SARS Jokes and Humor in China 148 hong zhang Part IV: Globalization and Cross-Cultural Issues 9. SARS and the Problem of Social Stigma 173 arthur kleinman and sing lee 10. SARS and the Consequences for Globalization 196 james l. watson Notes 205 Index 235

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this defining ethnography of China's public health system and its complex relation to epidemics, Katherine Mason brilliantly describes health professionals, their struggles to be effective and ethical, the barriers they face, and how they animate the Chinese public health system as a lived reality. Infectious Change is an impressive contribution to both China studies and to medical anthropology!" -- Arthur Kleinman, Director * Harvard Asia Center *"Meticulously crafted, Infectious Change draws readers into the world of Chinese public health after SARS. Mason documents fundamentally different approaches to epidemic control among global, state, and local practitioners, including management of migratory populations, data collection, and ethics, arguing that global directives often stymie local efforts. This book elucidates why epidemic prevention everywhere must draw on local knowledge and practices." -- Margaret Lock * author of The Alzheimer Conundrum *"Infectious Change brings us for the first time before a hitherto unacknowledged consequence of the 2009 H1N1 crisis, and, at that, in one of the most epidemiologically critical regions of the globe today. It is this invaluable insight that should hold the attention not only of medical anthropologists but also of the wider global health community." -- Christos Lynteris * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"This is an excellent, thought-provoking book, which will appeal to those with interests in contemporary China, medical anthropology, and histories of health and disease. It yields insights that will illuminate broader debates, such as those that pivot on the challenges inherent in promoting the "global" as a category in health." -- Robert Peckham * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Katherine Mason's book is an important contribution to the fields of Chinese studies and anthropology, joining a recent spate of excellent studies using the methods of anthropology to look at the intersections of public health, cultural practices and politics in China...Mason's book reminds us that implementing public health policy is never only about what is technically correct. It is about the cultural values and practices that govern relationships. It is also about understanding the power dynamics of the political system and generating the political will to construct an enabling environment and accountability mechanism to achieve it. In China, the tensions between centre and local are rarely resolved in favour of local and when new criteria for professional advancement are introduced, it results in the type of dysfunction so masterfully described by Mason." -- Joan Kaufman * China Quarterly *"In Infectious Change, Katherine A. Mason provides a captivating analysis of public health in China in the wake of SARS...Infectious Change is an insightful work that would be of interest to scholars of China and global health practitioners while also being accessible to a general academic reader. For China scholars, Mason makes a major contribution to the literature on public health." -- Emilio Dirlikov * Anthropological Quarterly *"Infectious Change presents a rich ethnographic account of how the Tianmai CDC works, how it would like to transform itself, and the barriers to doing so. It will make an excellent addition to courses on the anthropology of China or of global health because of the clarity of its ethnographic account and also because of the questions it opens up."––Elanah Uretsky, Asian MedicinTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThis chapter situates the reader in time and space and lays out the main arguments of the book. The author provides an overview of the recent history of public health in China, and describes the pseudonymous city of Tianmai. The author then suggests that due to key differences between professional responsibility as it is defined in the clinical and public health settings - particularly with regards to the aggregate nature of the public health "client" – a bifurcation of service and governance arose in Tianmai between a "common" being served and local populations being governed. The chapter lays out five "commons" that will be examined in the rest of the book: a civilized immigrant common, a professional common, a transnational scientific common, a global health common, and a global common. It also suggests that the Tianmai case can offer novel insights into the study of global health. 2City of Immigrants chapter abstractThis chapter takes a closer look at the immigrant city of Tianmai, and considers how the modern, cosmopolitan urban paradise that Tianmai's elites were trying to build included some and excluded others. In particular, the chapter examines the relationship – or lack thereof – between Tianmai's public health professionals and the city's enormous "floating population" of rural-to-urban migrants. The author shows how her interlocutors – former migrants themselves – refused to engage with migrant individuals, and actively maintained personal, moral, and professional boundaries between themselves and the floating population. This effectively divulged public health professionals of responsibility for the majority of the people who lived in their city and established them as "biological non-citizens" who had to be governed but could not be served. In doing this public health professionals worked to serve a civilized immigrant common of modern urban subjects that did not include the floating population. 3Relationships, Trust, and Truths chapter abstractThis chapter illustrates how the power to implement any given public health initiative in China was located within the webs of guanxi, or personal relationships, that public health professionals spun anew at the beginning of each project. Drawing on rich ethnographic description, the chapter takes the reader into the banqueting and other entertainment rituals that public health professionals engaged in almost daily in order to create and maintain these networks of reciprocal obligation and personalistic trust. The author then examines how a group of young, highly educated post-SARS reformers attempted to rid the public health system of guanxi, which they regarded as anti-scientific and akin to corruption. These reformers hoped to build a more transparent and reliable system of disease reporting and governance by establishing a professional common grounded in professionalized trust. 4Scientific Imaginaries chapter abstractThis chapter critically examines public health research and science in Tianmai. The author explores the efforts of Chinese public health professionals to advance their careers through scientific research, and discusses how in the wake of SARS, Chinese public health institutions dramatically increased their investments in scientific research – rendering publishable research a major focus of local public health work. Newly hired young people labored to produce the "quality" and "true" data that they associated with good science. They hoped that doing so would give them a chance to "develop themselves" as members of transnational scientific common, and to escape a local moral world that they felt was dominated by mimicry, deception, and instability. The chapter suggests that their approach to research provides a mirror through which public health researchers in other contexts could critically examine their own ethical practices, raising new questions about global research ethics. 5Pandemic Betrayals chapter abstractThis chapter provides an ethnographically rich eyewitness account of Tianmai's response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, describing how public health professionals in Tianmai drew upon the lessons of SARS to mount what they thought would be an internationally lauded response to H1N1. In attempting to prove their pandemic preparedness capabilities and ensure a place among the global scientific elite, however, Tianmai's public health professionals instead found that their full admittance into a global health common and a global common remained elusive. The chapter discusses the professionals' difficulties in escaping their perceived status as a source, rather than a victim, of dangerous viruses; their use of disease control tactics that were portrayed abroad as excessive and unsophisticated; and their disappointment with the failure of their leaders and guanxi partners to act in the professional fashion that they had been trying to promote since SARS. 6Conclusion chapter abstractThe concluding chapter returns to the broader question of what professional responsibility can or should mean in public health and beyond, and asks how public health professionals in China could work to reconcile the "common" with the "population," and population needs with individual needs. The author uses the case of HIV/AIDS to examine the ways in which some public health professionals in Tianmai were experimenting with alternative interpretations of public health that broadened the boundaries of the common to allow in otherwise maligned groups, including rural migrants, gay men, and sex workers. The book ends by considering the implications of this ethnography for the study of public health – both local and global – more broadly.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this defining ethnography of China's public health system and its complex relation to epidemics, Katherine Mason brilliantly describes health professionals, their struggles to be effective and ethical, the barriers they face, and how they animate the Chinese public health system as a lived reality. Infectious Change is an impressive contribution to both China studies and to medical anthropology!" -- Arthur Kleinman, Director * Harvard Asia Center *"Meticulously crafted, Infectious Change draws readers into the world of Chinese public health after SARS. Mason documents fundamentally different approaches to epidemic control among global, state, and local practitioners, including management of migratory populations, data collection, and ethics, arguing that global directives often stymie local efforts. This book elucidates why epidemic prevention everywhere must draw on local knowledge and practices." -- Margaret Lock * author of The Alzheimer Conundrum *"Infectious Change brings us for the first time before a hitherto unacknowledged consequence of the 2009 H1N1 crisis, and, at that, in one of the most epidemiologically critical regions of the globe today. It is this invaluable insight that should hold the attention not only of medical anthropologists but also of the wider global health community." -- Christos Lynteris * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"This is an excellent, thought-provoking book, which will appeal to those with interests in contemporary China, medical anthropology, and histories of health and disease. It yields insights that will illuminate broader debates, such as those that pivot on the challenges inherent in promoting the "global" as a category in health." -- Robert Peckham * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Katherine Mason's book is an important contribution to the fields of Chinese studies and anthropology, joining a recent spate of excellent studies using the methods of anthropology to look at the intersections of public health, cultural practices and politics in China...Mason's book reminds us that implementing public health policy is never only about what is technically correct. It is about the cultural values and practices that govern relationships. It is also about understanding the power dynamics of the political system and generating the political will to construct an enabling environment and accountability mechanism to achieve it. In China, the tensions between centre and local are rarely resolved in favour of local and when new criteria for professional advancement are introduced, it results in the type of dysfunction so masterfully described by Mason." -- Joan Kaufman * China Quarterly *"In Infectious Change, Katherine A. Mason provides a captivating analysis of public health in China in the wake of SARS...Infectious Change is an insightful work that would be of interest to scholars of China and global health practitioners while also being accessible to a general academic reader. For China scholars, Mason makes a major contribution to the literature on public health." -- Emilio Dirlikov * Anthropological Quarterly *"Infectious Change presents a rich ethnographic account of how the Tianmai CDC works, how it would like to transform itself, and the barriers to doing so. It will make an excellent addition to courses on the anthropology of China or of global health because of the clarity of its ethnographic account and also because of the questions it opens up."––Elanah Uretsky, Asian MedicinTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThis chapter situates the reader in time and space and lays out the main arguments of the book. The author provides an overview of the recent history of public health in China, and describes the pseudonymous city of Tianmai. The author then suggests that due to key differences between professional responsibility as it is defined in the clinical and public health settings - particularly with regards to the aggregate nature of the public health "client" – a bifurcation of service and governance arose in Tianmai between a "common" being served and local populations being governed. The chapter lays out five "commons" that will be examined in the rest of the book: a civilized immigrant common, a professional common, a transnational scientific common, a global health common, and a global common. It also suggests that the Tianmai case can offer novel insights into the study of global health. 2City of Immigrants chapter abstractThis chapter takes a closer look at the immigrant city of Tianmai, and considers how the modern, cosmopolitan urban paradise that Tianmai's elites were trying to build included some and excluded others. In particular, the chapter examines the relationship – or lack thereof – between Tianmai's public health professionals and the city's enormous "floating population" of rural-to-urban migrants. The author shows how her interlocutors – former migrants themselves – refused to engage with migrant individuals, and actively maintained personal, moral, and professional boundaries between themselves and the floating population. This effectively divulged public health professionals of responsibility for the majority of the people who lived in their city and established them as "biological non-citizens" who had to be governed but could not be served. In doing this public health professionals worked to serve a civilized immigrant common of modern urban subjects that did not include the floating population. 3Relationships, Trust, and Truths chapter abstractThis chapter illustrates how the power to implement any given public health initiative in China was located within the webs of guanxi, or personal relationships, that public health professionals spun anew at the beginning of each project. Drawing on rich ethnographic description, the chapter takes the reader into the banqueting and other entertainment rituals that public health professionals engaged in almost daily in order to create and maintain these networks of reciprocal obligation and personalistic trust. The author then examines how a group of young, highly educated post-SARS reformers attempted to rid the public health system of guanxi, which they regarded as anti-scientific and akin to corruption. These reformers hoped to build a more transparent and reliable system of disease reporting and governance by establishing a professional common grounded in professionalized trust. 4Scientific Imaginaries chapter abstractThis chapter critically examines public health research and science in Tianmai. The author explores the efforts of Chinese public health professionals to advance their careers through scientific research, and discusses how in the wake of SARS, Chinese public health institutions dramatically increased their investments in scientific research – rendering publishable research a major focus of local public health work. Newly hired young people labored to produce the "quality" and "true" data that they associated with good science. They hoped that doing so would give them a chance to "develop themselves" as members of transnational scientific common, and to escape a local moral world that they felt was dominated by mimicry, deception, and instability. The chapter suggests that their approach to research provides a mirror through which public health researchers in other contexts could critically examine their own ethical practices, raising new questions about global research ethics. 5Pandemic Betrayals chapter abstractThis chapter provides an ethnographically rich eyewitness account of Tianmai's response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, describing how public health professionals in Tianmai drew upon the lessons of SARS to mount what they thought would be an internationally lauded response to H1N1. In attempting to prove their pandemic preparedness capabilities and ensure a place among the global scientific elite, however, Tianmai's public health professionals instead found that their full admittance into a global health common and a global common remained elusive. The chapter discusses the professionals' difficulties in escaping their perceived status as a source, rather than a victim, of dangerous viruses; their use of disease control tactics that were portrayed abroad as excessive and unsophisticated; and their disappointment with the failure of their leaders and guanxi partners to act in the professional fashion that they had been trying to promote since SARS. 6Conclusion chapter abstractThe concluding chapter returns to the broader question of what professional responsibility can or should mean in public health and beyond, and asks how public health professionals in China could work to reconcile the "common" with the "population," and population needs with individual needs. The author uses the case of HIV/AIDS to examine the ways in which some public health professionals in Tianmai were experimenting with alternative interpretations of public health that broadened the boundaries of the common to allow in otherwise maligned groups, including rural migrants, gay men, and sex workers. The book ends by considering the implications of this ethnography for the study of public health – both local and global – more broadly.

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Book SynopsisPatients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking.Trade Review"This strong volume brings together contributors of different disciplinary and experiential backgrounds, broadening our understanding of how patient voices influence American health care policy." -- Elizabeth Toon * University of Manchester *"Patients as Policy Actors provides food for thought on the representation of patients’ voices in a variety of health care arenas. This edited anthology is both academic and intended to foster change. It evaluates patient effectiveness, from patients’ struggles to be heard to their successful mobilization of resources for shared interests." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Despite all of the recent study of patient activism, there has been little attempt to synthesize its achievements and limitations—making the scholarship as fragmented as the activism itself. Patients as Policy Actors fills this void. It should be required reading for anyone interested in how individual patients might mobilize together to help effect meaningful health care reform in the United States." -- Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD * When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine *"A valuable, timely book. It is a guide to developments in the field, critical with the new federal health care law soon to become fully operational. Highly recommended." * Choice *"This is a fascinating book that greatly enhances our understanding of the complexities surrounding the place of the patient in modern health care." * Social History of Medicine *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Patients as Policy Actors, by Nancy Tomes and Beatrix HoffmanPart I. Voices of the Silent1. Solitary Advocates: The Severely Brain Injured and Their Surrogates, by Joseph J. Fins and Jennifer Hersh2. Physician-Patient Communication in the Care of Vulnerable Populations: The Patient's Voice in Interpersonal Policy, by M. Robin DiMatteo, Kelly B. Haskard-Zolnierek, Summer L. Williams, and Desiree Despues3. Is It Time to Push Yet? The Challenges to Advocacy in U.S. Childbirth, by Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong and Eugene Declercq4. A Pound of Flesh: Patient Legal Action for Human Research Protections in the Biotech Age, by Lori Andrews and Julie Burger ChronisPart 2. From Individual to Collective5. From Outsiders to Insiders: The Consumer-Survivor Movement and Its Impact on U.S. Mental Health Policy, by Nancy Tomes6. "Don't Scream Alone": The Health Care Activism of Poor Americans in the 1970s, by Beatrix Hoffman7. The Canary in the Gemeinschaft: Using the Public Voice of Patients to Enhance Health System Performance, by Mark Schlesinger8. Patient Appeals as Policy Disputes: Individual and Collective Action in Managed Care, by Marc A. RodwinPart 3. How Patients Matter9. The Power of Us: A New Approach to Advocacy for Rare Cancers, by Amy Dockser Marcus10. Patients and the Rise of the Nurse-Practitioner Profession, by Julie Fairman11. A House on Fire: Newborn Screening, Parents' Advocacy, and the Discourse of Urgency, by Rachel Grob12. Measuring Success: Scientific, Institutional, and Cultural Effects on Patient Advocacy, by Steven EpsteinEpilogue: Principles for Engaging Patients in U.S. Health Care and Policy, by Rachel Grob and Mark SchlesingerNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gripping, tragic, cogent, emotional, and haunting, reading through these narrative accounts and Grob's interpretation of them achieves the effect of great sociological monographs." * Contemporary Sociology *"Newborn screening is a most interesting area that impacts each and every individual in countless ways. In this truly inspiring work, Grob has captured what others have not been able to write about the topic. Essential." * Choice *"Testing Baby does what sociology is meant to do—transform our understanding of everyday life, connect the personal to the structural, and challenge our thinking. A rare accomplishment" -- Barbara Katz Rothman * City University of New York *"Testing Baby is an excellent book for medical professionals—including physicians, social workers, and genetic researchers—as well as policymakers. A relevant and important contribution that sits at the interface of medical science, reproduction, and parenthood, Grob’s work will provoke further reflection regarding the future role of technology and genetic information for the human experience." * World Medical and Health Policy *"Grob provokes the reader to think deeply about a taken-for-granted aspect of the medicalization of reproduction in the United States." -- Rayna Rapp, PhD. * Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America *"Her accessible, Testing Baby,...may be the start of a differenc kind of policy conversation." * Health Affairs *"Rachel Grob's timely and insightful analysis explores how families actually experience newborn screening. It will be read with profit by anyone interested in issues raised by medical screening programs generally." -- Diane B. Paul * The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurtur *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Saving Babies, Changing Lives Chapter 2. Diagnostic Odysseys, Old and New: How Newbord Screening Transforms Parents' Encounters with Disease Chapter 3. Specters in the Room: Parenting in the Shadow of Cystic Fibrosis Chapter 4. Encounters with Expertise: Parents and Health Care Professionals Chapter 5. A House on Fire: How Private Experiences Ignite Public Voices Chapter 6. Brave New Worlds: Visible in a Single Drop of Blood? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAccording to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favourable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. This takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital’s public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies.Trade Review"Alyshia Galvez challenges conventional wisdom on how Latinas plan families, making a very important contribution to understanding the Latino health paradox." -- Peter J. Guarnaccia, Ph.D. * Institute for Health, Health Care Policy & Aging Research, Rutgers University *"This wonderful book demonstrates how immigrant knowledge is rendered irrelevant by the New York City medical establishment, and contributes to our understanding of large-scale transnational immigration issues examined through the lens of gender, pregnancy, and reproduction." -- Rayna Rapp * author, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in *"For years, health professionals have been intrigued by the so-called 'birth-weight paradox'—the fact that recently arrived Mexican immigrant women have fewer pregnancy complications and fewer low-birth-weight babies than their socioeconomic status would predict. Galvez casts the large New York City public hospital prenatal clinic at which she did her interviews as a site of 'subjectification'—the molding of Mexican immigrant women and their families into racialized, needy, passive subjects of medicalization, state intervention, and monitoring. In large part, the women submit because of their own narratives of bettering themselves by their move to the US. This brief description cannot do justice to the richness of Galvez's analysis and the complexity of the women's negotiations with the US health care system. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Alyshia Galvez challenges conventional wisdom on how Latinas plan families, making a very important contribution to understanding the Latino health paradox." -- Peter J. Guarnaccia, Ph.D. * Institute for Health, Health Care Policy & Aging Research, Rutgers University *"This wonderful book demonstrates how immigrant knowledge is rendered irrelevant by the New York City medical establishment, and contributes to our understanding of large-scale transnational immigration issues examined through the lens of gender, pregnancy, and reproduction." -- Rayna Rapp * author, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in *"For years, health professionals have been intrigued by the so-called 'birth-weight paradox'—the fact that recently arrived Mexican immigrant women have fewer pregnancy complications and fewer low-birth-weight babies than their socioeconomic status would predict. Galvez casts the large New York City public hospital prenatal clinic at which she did her interviews as a site of 'subjectification'—the molding of Mexican immigrant women and their families into racialized, needy, passive subjects of medicalization, state intervention, and monitoring. In large part, the women submit because of their own narratives of bettering themselves by their move to the US. This brief description cannot do justice to the richness of Galvez's analysis and the complexity of the women's negotiations with the US health care system. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Paradoxes and Patients: Immigrants and Prenatal Care2. Immigrant Aspirations and the Decisions Families Make3. Remembering Reproductive Care in Rural Mexico4. Becoming Patients: Birth Experiences in New York City5. Critical Perspectives on Prenatal Care6. Prenatal Care and the Reception of Immigrants: Reflections and Suggestions for ChangeEpilogueNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. With contributions from leading health care scholars, it is the first comprehensive assessment of the safety net following enactment of national health care reform.Trade Review"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens." -- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens." -- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Tables1. The Health Care Safety Net in the Context of National Health Insurance ReformPart I2. Dr. StrangeRove; or, How Conservatives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Community Health Centers3. Reinventing a Classic: Community Health Centers and the Newly Insured4. Applying Lessons from Social Psychology to Repair the Health Care Safety Net for Undocumented Immigrants5. Community Health Center and Academic Medical Partnerships to Expand and Improve Primary Care6. Examining the Structure and Sustainability of Health Care Safety-Net ServicesPart II7. Safety-Net Hospitals at the Crossroads: Whither Medicaid DSH?8. The Safety-Net Role of Public Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers: Past, Present, and Future9. The Declining Public Hospital SectorPart III10. Achieving Universal Access through Safety-Net Coverage11. Public Coverage Expansions and Private Health Insurance Crowd-Out: Implications for Safety NetsAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA compilation of the primary texts-by Foucault, Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, and other theorists-that laid the ground for contemporary thinking about biopolitics, or the relations between life and politics.Trade ReviewWhat Lemkes final chapter makes plain, and what can thus be read back into the book on the whole...is that biopolitics is a coherent field of inquiry for future work in anthropology, sociology, science studies, and of course history and philosophy, and that it is such precisely because it is a field of inquiry, namely an arena for rigorous investigation and severe thought... This is a crucial task. Lemke is to be applauded for showing both its coherence and its needfulness. * Theory & Event *Thomas Lemke's Biopolitics: An Advanced Introductionis required reading for anyone interested in this concept. -- Carlos Novas * New Genetics and Society *[This book] advances an analytics of 'biopolitics' as a 'prospective' methodological approach, offering a number of valuable and provocative questions to guide future research. * Foucault Studies *Lemke (Goethe Univ., Germany) offers an overview of biopolitics and an account of its relevance in theoretical debate... Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore Preface Introduction 1 Life as the Basis of Politics 2 Life as an Object of Politics 3 The Government of Living Beings: Michel Foucault 4 Sovereign Power and Bare Life: Giorgio Agamben 5 Capitalism and the Living Multitude: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 6 The Disappearance and Transformation of Politics 7 The End and Reinvention of Nature 8 Vital Politics and Bioeconomy 9 Prospect: An Analytics of Biopolitics Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of biopolitics has been linked to everything from rational decision-making and the democratic organization of social life to eugenics and racism, Thomas Lemke offers the very first systematic overview of the history of the notion of biopolitics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic. Lemke explains that life has become an independent, objective and measurable factor as well as a collective reality that can be separated from concrete living beings and the singularity of individual experience. He shows how our understanding of the processes of life, the organizing of Trade ReviewWhat Lemkes final chapter makes plain, and what can thus be read back into the book on the whole...is that biopolitics is a coherent field of inquiry for future work in anthropology, sociology, science studies, and of course history and philosophy, and that it is such precisely because it is a field of inquiry, namely an arena for rigorous investigation and severe thought... This is a crucial task. Lemke is to be applauded for showing both its coherence and its needfulness. * Theory & Event *Thomas Lemke's Biopolitics: An Advanced Introductionis required reading for anyone interested in this concept. -- Carlos Novas * New Genetics and Society *[This book] advances an analytics of 'biopolitics' as a 'prospective' methodological approach, offering a number of valuable and provocative questions to guide future research. * Foucault Studies *Lemke (Goethe Univ., Germany) offers an overview of biopolitics and an account of its relevance in theoretical debate... Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore Preface Introduction 1 Life as the Basis of Politics 2 Life as an Object of Politics 3 The Government of Living Beings: Michel Foucault 4 Sovereign Power and Bare Life: Giorgio Agamben 5 Capitalism and the Living Multitude: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 6 The Disappearance and Transformation of Politics 7 The End and Reinvention of Nature 8 Vital Politics and Bioeconomy 9 Prospect: An Analytics of Biopolitics Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A keenly observed case study."—Foreign Affairs"HIV Exceptionalism will be a fine addition to both institutional and personal libraries, offering insights for global health and development scholars, and particularly for HIV/AIDS researchers."—African Studies Review"Through fine-grained accounts describing how individuals navigated new structures, new relationships, and new expectations that came along with being beneficiaries of global HIV funding, Benton reveals that jagged edges and uncomfortable truths about broader global-local health encounters. This book tells a compelling story about an entire society adapting to a sudden infusion of donor money for a disease that, in this particular context, barely existed."—Anthropological Quarterly"Benton recovers numerous silences and opens a conversation foregrounding the unarticulated moral epistemologies people struggle with."—Journal of African History"Benton adeptly dissects the psychological and practical effects of the well-meaning but often overbearing world of development. HIV Exceptionalism is strongly argued and impressively researched."—The Lancet"This book serves as a critical call to those in the public health field to be wary of health programming that so imbalances comprehensive healthcare services in an effort to target a health problem that is perceived as exceptional, emergent and urgent."—Medical Anthropology QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: HIV Exceptionalism in Sierra Leone: Christiana’s StoryPart I. The Exceptional Life of HIV in Sierra Leone1. The HIV Industry in Postwar Sierra Leone2. Exceptional Life, Exceptional Suffering: Enumerating HIV’s TruthsPart II. Becoming HIV-Positive3. The Imperative to Talk: Disclosure and Its Preoccupations4. Positive Living: Hierarchies of Visibility, Vulnerability, and Self-ReliancePart III. HIV and Governance5. For Love of Country: Model Citizens, Good Governance, and the Nationalization of HIVConclusion: The Future of HIV ExceptionalismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHeterosexual Africa?Trade Review“Epprecht’s own interview material and his close reading of a wide range of AIDS literature from across the continent reveals one terrifying fact: researchers have studied HIV/AIDS as a heterosexual disease in Africa because they have been told and have read that there is no homosexuality in Africa…. the assumption that Africa is a continent of heterosexual sex has been deadly for too many people for too long.” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“Epprecht’s argument—that imperialism ultimately brought homophobia to Africa, not an introduction of homosexual acts—has become an important tool for African LGBTI and human rights activists.” * International Socialist Journal *“Heterosexual Africa? interrogates the silences of anthropologists who have failed to dispel the myths denying that alternative forms of sexual expression among Africans, particularly men’s same-sex relationships, formerly were tolerated in various societies.” * African Studies Review *“Marc Epprecht boldly challenges a whole series of boundaries and blind spots in the history of African scholarship. This book should make for valuable controversy—both intellectually and politically—in contemporary Africa.”“This is a ground-breaking survey by an award-winning historian, a work of great significance for anyone interested in the study of sexuality in Africa…. Such work is essential for our understanding not only of African culture but, perhaps more immediately important, for our understanding of how violence, gender discrimination, and anxiety and ignorance about sexuality have impeded treatment of a health crisis of catastrophic and continental magnitude.” * Anthropos *“(Heterosexual Africa?) is a Kafkaesque labyrinth of the stories of researchers who either ignored evidence of African homosexuality or were blind to it or chose to suppress what they found due to homophobia (their own or that of their peers.” * The Gay & Lesbian Review *“This outstanding study will attract a significant readership among undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of African history, queer theory, anthropology, and postcolonial literature. Scholars and activists working in the field of HIV/AIDS will also be challenged and engaged by this book. I am convinced that Heterosexual Africa? will stimulate debate and inspire a rethinking of methods and models in African social history. It represents a significant, provocative, and at times controversial contribution to the field.”

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Book SynopsisHeterosexual Africa?Trade Review“Epprecht’s own interview material and his close reading of a wide range of AIDS literature from across the continent reveals one terrifying fact: researchers have studied HIV/AIDS as a heterosexual disease in Africa because they have been told and have read that there is no homosexuality in Africa…. the assumption that Africa is a continent of heterosexual sex has been deadly for too many people for too long.” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“Epprecht’s argument—that imperialism ultimately brought homophobia to Africa, not an introduction of homosexual acts—has become an important tool for African LGBTI and human rights activists.” * International Socialist Journal *“Heterosexual Africa? interrogates the silences of anthropologists who have failed to dispel the myths denying that alternative forms of sexual expression among Africans, particularly men’s same-sex relationships, formerly were tolerated in various societies.” * African Studies Review *“Marc Epprecht boldly challenges a whole series of boundaries and blind spots in the history of African scholarship. This book should make for valuable controversy—both intellectually and politically—in contemporary Africa.”“This is a ground-breaking survey by an award-winning historian, a work of great significance for anyone interested in the study of sexuality in Africa…. Such work is essential for our understanding not only of African culture but, perhaps more immediately important, for our understanding of how violence, gender discrimination, and anxiety and ignorance about sexuality have impeded treatment of a health crisis of catastrophic and continental magnitude.” * Anthropos *“(Heterosexual Africa?) is a Kafkaesque labyrinth of the stories of researchers who either ignored evidence of African homosexuality or were blind to it or chose to suppress what they found due to homophobia (their own or that of their peers.” * The Gay & Lesbian Review *“This outstanding study will attract a significant readership among undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of African history, queer theory, anthropology, and postcolonial literature. Scholars and activists working in the field of HIV/AIDS will also be challenged and engaged by this book. I am convinced that Heterosexual Africa? will stimulate debate and inspire a rethinking of methods and models in African social history. It represents a significant, provocative, and at times controversial contribution to the field.”

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Book SynopsisHealing Traditions offers a historical perspective to the interactions between South Africa’s traditional healers and biomedical practitioners. It provides an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa’s healthcare challenges.Trade Review“(Flint) should be applauded for her thorough analysis of a very complex subject during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when western biomedicine was asserting itself worldwide as the dominant profession.” * Journal of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“Healing Traditions greatly illuminates the business of medicine within its colonial and postcolonial contexts…. Flint’s work not only offers an excellent model for comparative study; it also suggests that the situation in South Africa is just one important part of a world historical process of biomedical market expansion.” * Business History Review *“Flint’s work is of interest not only to historians of medicine, but also social-cultural historians working with topics as varied as witchcraft and professionalization…. Taken as a whole, the work demonstrates that the syncretic nature of the current South African medical environment results from almost 200 years of dynamic cultural exchange and competition.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Healing Traditions is a comprehensive work that substantially adds to our knowledge of how medicine and power have intertwined in South Africa over the past two hundred years.” * Technology and Culture *“An extremely timely book that will have immediate impact on the heated current debates across several fields of study, forming part of a new and exciting debate emerging around new South African history. The book has great potential to have a measurable impact on the teaching of medicine and health … and the various pathways to healing and health in our current HIV/AIDS pandemic.”“…lucid and detailed…. a vivid picture of the polyculturalism underlying African traditional medicine, and of the economic, social, and political history of a complex medical marketplace.” * American Historical Review *“A well-researched and argued book that contributes to the discussion over cultural imperialism by problematizing current ideas of biomedicine’s colonial hegemony.” * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisThrough the ages, rabies has exemplified the danger of diseases that transfer from wild animals to humans and their domestic stock. In South Africa, rabies has been on the rise since the latter part of the twentieth century despite the availability of postexposure vaccines and regular inoculation campaigns for dogs.InTrade Review“Brown has done a brilliant piece of detective work to trace the erratic progress of the disease through the region in the twentieth century. She integrates an innovative history of science and medicine with a complex understanding of the ecology of disease. All of this is told in an engaging narrative which captures the cultural and political significance of rabies in societies riven by divisions of class and race.”“A compelling history of one of the most gruesome epidemic diseases that affect both humans and animals…. In seven chapters Brown is not only writing a history of rabies in colonial and post-colonial Southern Africa but shows how medical history can be as much environmental history as it is the history of ideas and of course social history.” * Environment and History *“Karen Brown demonstrates in her well-researched survey that the history of rabies in South Africa involved not only tranformations in veterinary practices, in epidemiology, in conservation, and in public health policy but also in wildlife. Over the twentieth century, the disease adapted to a variety of faunal vectors, including jackals, tigers, lions, mongooses, meerkats, and wild, stray, and domestic dogs.” * ISIS *“With few full studies of rabies available, Brown’s ecohistorical perspective will generate more than parochial interest.” * Choice *“No matter whether one’s chief interest lies in the human or animal component of her tale, Dr. Brown gives much food for thought in her revelation of human-animal interactions and how infections pass between animals and people.…In addition to the lively and informed nature of Dr. Brown’s writing, Mad Dogs and Meerkats is also readily accessible to the layperson. Dr. Brown includes many quotations from writers and experts in the field, always ensuring that such quotations are pertinent and salient, while restricting them to the most relevant utterances made by these professionals.” * New York Journal of Books *

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Book SynopsisThis is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today—smallpox, bubonic plague, “Spanish influenza,” polio, and HIV/AIDS—the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences.Trade Review“Such a book is overdue…(It) is precisely written, accessible, eminently readable, and, as I have found out, can be effectively deployed as an effective teaching tool.”

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Book SynopsisGlobal Health in Africa is a first exploration of selected histories of global health initiatives in Africa. The collection addresses some of the most important interventions in disease control, including mass vaccination, large-scale treatment and/or prophylaxis campaigns, harm reduction efforts, and nutritional and virological research.Trade Review“An immensely valuable collection…Global Health in Africa should inspire a new generation of local historians to locate the medical in African histories.” * Social History of Medicine *“For anyone looking for a book to assign to undergraduates, or to recommend to students who are interested in the field of global health, the collection edited by Giles-Vernick and Webb, Global Health in Africa, is [an] obvious choice.” * African Studies Review *“Taken as a collective, the essays offer other lessons to those interested in African public and global health. The most striking theme across the volume are the ways in which health interventions can unintentionally contribute to ill health and create tense relationships with medical practitioners.… A second theme is how individual rights are frequently imperiled by mass campaigns, particularly ones where the line between cure and prevention is blurred.… The collection makes the case well for including historical perspectives in approaching global health, but it also demonstrates how including a global health frame can contribute to histories of disease, health and healing in Africa.” * H-Net *“The distinctive contribution of the work is its explicit historical orientation…. Importantly, the historical perspective…highlights the long-term continuities, unquestioned assumptions and moral ambiguities that characterize global health initiatives in Africa. The breadth and depth of the contributions ensures that the book comes a long way in achieving its objective to contribute to the development of a new field of global health history.” * Comparativ *“This volume illustrates very well that the current day applicability of the core concepts of global health [have] need of the serious critical historical and cultural examination that this volume (and no others that I know of) now provides in its richest and most useful form.”“[Global Health in Africa] demonstrates that Africa’s global health history is rich, important, and under-researched. The strength of this book lies in the breadth and depth of the studies presented in one volume.”“Provides a variety of case studies from different parts of the continent and different historical periods.… The cumulative effect of the chapters impresses on the reader the scope of the experimentation that has been done and that continues to be done on African bodies.”

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Book SynopsisMore than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care.Trade Review“Tappan’s rich study explores how complex health issues in Africa and other regions of the global south have been falsely constructed as problems that can be easily addressed through the application of externally derived biomedical technologies. A must read for public health scholars and practitioners.”“Largely biomedical in orientation and located in the Global North, groups such as the World Heath Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and university research centers seek to remedy the health of the Global South through technological fixes with one-size-fits-all protocols. Tappan’s research … challenges the assumptions of global health on a number of fronts and shows the cost to public health when little regard is given to local culture, history, or autonomy…. Tappan’s work makes significant interventions to the emerging field of African historical epidemiology.” * American Historical Review *“This is a thoughtful and well-researched book on a subject that has remained outside the global health bubble. It tells the important story of capacity and local initiative, as Ugandan doctors, scientists and community health workers struggled to sustain primary health care against unbelievable odds.” * Social History of Medicine *“We try not to pick favorites in the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular, but I’ve failed this year with this week’s book…Why was it my favorite? I’ve learned a lot and enjoyed reading all of the books in this summer’s series. But Tappan’s excellent and deeply researched book reads almost like a novel: At the end of each chapter, I needed to keep going to learn what happened next.…This book could change the way you think about health interventions.” * Washington Post online *“An incisive and sensitive portrayal of the real implications of the uneven generation of knowledge in East Africa. Tappan locates the history of nutrition not only in a succession of hypotheses tested on the bodies of Ugandan children, but in later community demonstration meals and in the willingness of researchers to recognize and reflect on the unintended consequences of their actions.”“By tracing the twists and turns in the epidemiology and treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Uganda into the present, The Riddle of Malnutrition delivers an illuminating analysis of the relationship between scientific research and efforts to provide medical care in Africa over the last century.”

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Book SynopsisLooks back at a seminal work of scholarship to provide critical guidance for the years aheadTable of ContentsForeword / Mark V. Pauly vii Preface / Victor R. Fuchs xiii Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care: "Why Arrow? Why Now?" / Peter J. Hammer, Deborah Haas-Wilson, Mark A. Peterson, and William M. Sage xvii Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care (American Economics Review, 1963) / Kenneth J. Arrow 1 Part 1: Supply, Demand, and Health Care Competition General Equilibrium and Marketability in the Health Care Industry / Michael Chernew 37 Arrow's Concept of the Health Care Consumer: A Forty-Year Retrospective / Frank A. Sloan 49 Uncertainty and Technological Change in Medicine / Annetine G. Gelijns, Joshua Graff Zivin, and Richard R. Nelson 60 Human Inputs: The Health Care Workforce and Medical Markets / Richard A. Cooper and Linda H. Aiken 71 Health Care as a (Big) Business: The Antitrust Response / Clark C. Havighurst 84 Part 2: Risk, Insurance, and Redistribution Health Insurance and Market Failure since Arrow / Sherry A. Glied 103 Can Efficiency in Health Care Be Left to the Market? / Uwe E. Reinhardt 111 Valuing Charity / Richard Kronick 134 Medical Service Risk and the Evolution of Provider Compensation Arrangements / Gloria J. Bazzoli 142 The Role of the Capital Markets in Restructuring Health Care / J. B. Silvers 156 Part 3: Information, Knowledge, and Medical Markets Arrow and the Information Market Failure in Health Care: The Changing Content and Sources of Health Care Information / Deborah Haas-Wilson 169 The End of Asymmetric Information / James C. Robinson 181 Managing Uncertainty: Intermediate Organizations as Triple Agents / Lawrence Casalino 189 Moral Hazard vs. Real Hazard: Quality of Care Post-Arrow / Michael L. Millenson 202 Part 4: Social Norms and Professionalism Arrow's Analysis of Social Institutions: Entering the Marketplace with Giving Hands? / Peter J. Hammer 215 The Market for Medical Ethics / M. Gregg Bloche 230 The Role of Nonprofits in Health Care / Jack Needleman 243 Arrow on Trust / Mark A. Hall 259 From Trust to Political Power: Interest Groups, Public Choice, and Health Care / Mark A. Peterson 272 Regulating Health Care: From Self-Regulation to Self-Regulation? / Peter D. Jacobson 290 The Lawyerization of Medicine / William M. Sage 302 Part 5: Response by Professor Arrow Reflections on Reflections / Kenneth J. Arrow 321 Contributors 327 Index 335

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Book SynopsisWeighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC). This book contends that supporters of CDHC rely on oversimplified ideas about health care, health care systems, economics, and human nature. It challenges the historical and theoretical assumptions on which the consumer-driven health care movement is based.Trade Review“Health Care at Risk is the first intelligent and intelligible discussion of a new fad in American health policy, the so-called ‘consumer-directed’ movement. This topic is quite important, and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost knows what he is talking about.”— Theodore R. Marmor, author of Fads, Fallacies, and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy“Health Care at Risk offers a scholarly and insightful assessment of the origins, theoretical underpinnings, and key elements of the modern consumerism movement in health care financing and its implications for health care access and quality. Clear, unbiased, and thought-provoking, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost’s book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of the American health care system.”—Sara Rosenbaum, Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services“A well-timed, compelling study, written for experts but also, thankfully, understandable by ‘consumers.’ Timothy Stoltzfus Jost shows why leaving health care decisions to a free market cannot work, even in the United States, while also emphasizing the importance of consumer choice in future policy decisions. Erudite, clearly argued, engaging, and fair.”—Rosemary A. Stevens, author of The Public-Private Health Care State “In Health Care at Risk, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost has written a compelling and yet balanced critique of the so-called ‘consumer-driven health care movement,’ a movement that is gaining force not just in the United States, but around the world. Students of international health policy, and indeed supporters and opponents of the CDHC movement, would benefit from reading Jost’s account.”—Adam Oliver, Editor in Chief, Health Economics, Policy and Law“[A]n analytic tour de force, comprehensive in scope, scrupulous in scholarship, balanced in approach, and incisive in its policy recommendations. . . . Health Care at Risk is a fine piece of work that should be of interest to policy makers, policy researchers, and many physicians. It would also be an excellent supplementary text for an introductory course in health policy and management. Name an issue that is germane to the current health policy debate and you are likely to find it discussed here. The references and footnotes are comprehensive and meticulous. Most of the major modern contributors to health care organization and finance are not only cited, but their ideas are transmitted with high fidelity and clarity.” -- Richard L. Kravitz * JAMA *Table of ContentsPreface ix 1. Our Broken American Health Care System 1 2. The Consumer-Driven Prescription 17 3. Consumer-Driven Health Care Advocates: Who They Are and What They Believe 27 4. Consumer-Driven Health Care the First Time Around 42 5. The Nonaccidental System 54 6. The Origins of Consumer-Driven Health Care: A Short History of American Health Economics 7. The Theoretical Foundations of Consumer-Driven Health Care 86 8. But Does It Work? The Evidence for and against Consumer-Driven Health Care 119 9. Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues Presented by Consumer-Driven Health Care 150 10. Are Consumers Our Only Hope? How Other Countries Organize Their Health Care Systems 166 11. How to Fix Our Broken Health Care System: Where Do We Start? 189 Notes 205 Bibliography 225 Index 253

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul.Trade Review“New Organs Within Us is a tour de force. A brave, nuanced, and caring journey into the lives of transplant patients and the new worlds of meaning they tentatively inhabit. Soulfully written, the book changes the way we think about inner life and well-being, technology and human agency, and the impact of the global biomedical enterprise on local health systems. Social scientists and medical practitioners will have to reckon with this exceptional analysis for years to come.”—João Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival“I learned a great deal from this brilliant book. There is nothing else like it in the ethnographic literature on comparative high-tech medicine. Aslihan Sanal reaches far beyond the story of transplant patients and the organ trade in Turkey, taking in global flows of knowledge and ethics around brain-death, organ donation, and standards of care, as well as the worldwide organ trade, in which organs are exchanged legally and on the black market.”—Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School“New Organs within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy is a richly ethnographic and soulfully written book that plunges its audience into the world of transplant patients and physicians…. The book is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of organ transplant.” -- Monir Moniruzzaman * American Ethnologist *“New Organs within Us is an important contribution to the fields of science and technology studies and the anthropology of health and illness.” -- Aysecan Terzioglu * American Anthropologist *“This is a brilliant book about organ transplantation in Turkey, not only as a journey into the experiences of patients, donors, and relatives of the decease, but also as a political-economy engagement that sheds light on how coping mechanisms are segregated between the poor and the rich. I learned a great deal from this book, and would like to recommend it to students of social sciences, social medicine, and political economy in Turkey.” -- Fikret Adaman * Turkish Studies *"Sensitively written and deeply insightful, Aslihan Sanal’s ethnography of kidney transplantation in Turkey in the 1990s and 2000s is an intimate stitching of life histories, national and institutional narratives, and shifting meanings of life, death, and the body." -- Elizabeth DeLuca * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsPrologue. The Accurate Nature of Things xi Introduction. What Makes the World Our Own 1 The Book 6 In the Field 7 Part One. The Desirable 15 Half a Human 15 From the Earth, Through the Quake 21 Against the Tide 26 Traveling to the West and the East 30 Within the Experiment 36 Close to Death 41 Internal Objects 44 Words of Life 46 The Biopolis 50 East of "Reason," West of "Eternal Life" 54 Regulating Human Affairs, Fears, Emotions 63 The Economy of Human Flesh and Bones 85 The Biopolis's Vocations 95 Twice Inert, Lifeless, and Life-less 108 Part Two. The Impossible 111 Spaces of Death 111 The Pool of the Dead 118 Mehmed 122 Insanity 128 Kadavra 130 Beyond the Mirror 134 Dissection and Disenchantment 140 Burial 143 Rites of Diffusion 146 Reburial 150 Suicide 153 Dying Metaphors 160 Sacrifice 165 The Possible 175 Conclusion. New Life 179 Epistemic Passages 180 Benimseme 191 Acknowledgments 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 221 Index 233

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul.Trade Review“New Organs Within Us is a tour de force. A brave, nuanced, and caring journey into the lives of transplant patients and the new worlds of meaning they tentatively inhabit. Soulfully written, the book changes the way we think about inner life and well-being, technology and human agency, and the impact of the global biomedical enterprise on local health systems. Social scientists and medical practitioners will have to reckon with this exceptional analysis for years to come.”—João Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival“I learned a great deal from this brilliant book. There is nothing else like it in the ethnographic literature on comparative high-tech medicine. Aslihan Sanal reaches far beyond the story of transplant patients and the organ trade in Turkey, taking in global flows of knowledge and ethics around brain-death, organ donation, and standards of care, as well as the worldwide organ trade, in which organs are exchanged legally and on the black market.”—Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School“New Organs within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy is a richly ethnographic and soulfully written book that plunges its audience into the world of transplant patients and physicians…. The book is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of organ transplant.” -- Monir Moniruzzaman * American Ethnologist *“New Organs within Us is an important contribution to the fields of science and technology studies and the anthropology of health and illness.” -- Aysecan Terzioglu * American Anthropologist *“This is a brilliant book about organ transplantation in Turkey, not only as a journey into the experiences of patients, donors, and relatives of the decease, but also as a political-economy engagement that sheds light on how coping mechanisms are segregated between the poor and the rich. I learned a great deal from this book, and would like to recommend it to students of social sciences, social medicine, and political economy in Turkey.” -- Fikret Adaman * Turkish Studies *"Sensitively written and deeply insightful, Aslihan Sanal’s ethnography of kidney transplantation in Turkey in the 1990s and 2000s is an intimate stitching of life histories, national and institutional narratives, and shifting meanings of life, death, and the body." -- Elizabeth DeLuca * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsPrologue. The Accurate Nature of Things xi Introduction. What Makes the World Our Own 1 The Book 6 In the Field 7 Part One. The Desirable 15 Half a Human 15 From the Earth, Through the Quake 21 Against the Tide 26 Traveling to the West and the East 30 Within the Experiment 36 Close to Death 41 Internal Objects 44 Words of Life 46 The Biopolis 50 East of "Reason," West of "Eternal Life" 54 Regulating Human Affairs, Fears, Emotions 63 The Economy of Human Flesh and Bones 85 The Biopolis's Vocations 95 Twice Inert, Lifeless, and Life-less 108 Part Two. The Impossible 111 Spaces of Death 111 The Pool of the Dead 118 Mehmed 122 Insanity 128 Kadavra 130 Beyond the Mirror 134 Dissection and Disenchantment 140 Burial 143 Rites of Diffusion 146 Reburial 150 Suicide 153 Dying Metaphors 160 Sacrifice 165 The Possible 175 Conclusion. New Life 179 Epistemic Passages 180 Benimseme 191 Acknowledgments 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 221 Index 233

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the major phases in the history of health services in Africa and treats health as an integral aspect of the deepening crisis in Africa’s underdevelopment. One important thesis is that Western delivery systems have made health care less accessible for most people.

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of this successful text is an essential and accessible guide to legal aspects of midwifery for all midwife supervisors, midwives, and midwifery students. Midwives will find this book provides them with the knowledge and understanding they require to make sense of the legal principles that affect their day-to-day work and allay their anxieties, encouraging them to extend and develop their practice safely and with confidence. This new edition includes new and revised case studies throughout. It also contains new sections on NHS accountability, the Human Rights Act, the Data Protection Act, reproductive technologies and disciplinary pathways. Relates legal issues to everyday midwifery practice Written by an experienced midwife for midwives Accessible, relevant and up-to-dateTrade ReviewFrom reviews of the first edition: “The book is written with commendable and enviable clarity… Get this book. Read it. Go back to it.” Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology “I would recommend every midwife to obtain a copy of one or other of them, both to assist her safe practice and allay fears of ignorance about the law as it refers to midwifery.” Midwives “It is clear that this is a book written by a midwife for midwives. The examples used being topical, relevant and recognisable. I found this book fascinating….” Inprint Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1 The Legal Framework. Chapter 2 The Statutory Profession of Midwifery. Chapter 3 The Statutory Regulation of Midwifery. Chapter 4 Accountability within the NHS. Chapter 5 Negligence in Midwifery Practice. Chapter 6 Consent and Refusal. Chapter 7 Use and Abuse of Information. Chapter 8 Aspects of Law Related to Reproduction and Child Protection. Chapter 9 Aspects of Employment Law. Chapter 10 Application to Midwifery Practice

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Book SynopsisABC of Medical Law focuses on the legal issues in daily practice. It provides up to date coverage of contentious issues, such as withholding and withdrawing treatment and confidentiality. The illustrated, user friendly format will provide you with a guide to how to keep your daily practice within the constraints of the law.Trade Review"... starting with an excellent overview of the legal system, going on to cover many of the areas you would expect, including: consent; refusal of treatment; negligence; confidentiality; and withholding and withdrawing treatment. It does this well..." The Psychiatrist, August 2010Table of ContentsPreface vii 1 Introduction to the Legal System 1Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield 2 Consent in Adults 6Lorraine Corfield Ingrid Granne 3 Consent in Children 12Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield 4 Refusal of Medical Treatment 15Lorraine Corfield Ingrid Granne 5 Negligence: The Duty of Care 18Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield 6 Negligence: The Legal Standard of Care 22Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield 7 Negligence: Causation 26Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield 8 Confidentiality 29Lorraine Corfield Ingrid Granne 9 Withholding andWithdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment 34Lorraine Corfield Ingrid Granne 10 Research 38Lorraine Corfield Ruth Wilkinson Ingrid Granne 11 Organ Transplantation Organ Retention and Post-Mortem Examinations 44Ruth Wilkinson Lorraine Corfield Ingrid Granne 12 The Healthcare Professional and the Human Rights Act 50Ingrid Granne Lorraine Corfield Index 53

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Book SynopsisFree Clinics will be useful to policymakers, students and faculty in public health and health policy programs, and clinicians and students who are embarking on launching new clinics.Trade ReviewA comprehensive look at case studies and research findings on free clinics in the United States. -- Jessica Bylander Health AffairsTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceChapter 1. Free Clinics Stand as a Pillar of the Health Care Safety Net: Findings from a Narrative Literature ReviewPart I: Free ClinicsChapter 2. Psychiatric Street Outreach to Homeless People: Fostering Relationship, Reconnection, and RecoveryChapter 3. Nurse Practitioners in Community Health Settings TodayChapter 4. Following the Call: How Providers Make Sense of Their Decisions to Work in Faith- Based and Secular Urban Community Health CentersChapter 5. The Jane Dent Home: The Rise and Fall of Homes for the Aged in Low- Income CommunitiesChapter 6. Early Collaboration for Adaptation: Addressing Depression in Low- Income New MothersChapter 7. Neighborhood Clinics: An Academic Medical Center– Community Health Center PartnershipChapter 8. Free Clinics Helping to Patch the Safety NetChapter 9. Impact of Providing a Medical Home to the Uninsured: Evaluation of a Statewide ProgramChapter 10. Characteristics of Patients at Three Free ClinicsChapter 11. Donated Care Programs: A Stopgap Mea sure or a Long- Run Alternative to Health Insurance?Chapter 12. Missed Appointment Rates in Primary Care: The Importance of Site of CareChapter 13. Free Clinics and the Uninsured: The Increasing Demands of Chronic IllnessChapter 14. Missed Opportunities for Patient Education and Social Worker Consultation at the Arbor Free ClinicChapter 15. Adapting the Chronic Care Model to Treat Chronic Illness at a Free Medical ClinicChapter 16. Medical Respite Care for Homeless People: A Growing National PhenomenonPart II: Student-Run Clinics Chapter 17. Balancing Service and Education: Ethical Management of Student- Run ClinicsChapter 18. Quality of Diabetes Care at a Student- Run Free ClinicChapter 19. Students Who Participate in a Student- Run Free Health Clinic Need Education about Access to Care IssuesChapter 20. The UCSD Student- Run Free Clinic Project: Transdisciplinary Health Professional EducationChapter 21. Charlottesville Health Access: A Locality- Based Model of Health Care Navigation for the HomelessChapter 22. UCLA Mobile Clinic ProjectChapter 23. The Promise Clinic: A Service- Learning Approach to Increasing Access to Health Care Chapter 24. Engaging Student Health Organizations in Reducing Health Disparities in Underserved Communities through Volunteerism: Developing a Student Health CorpsChapter 25. HealthSTAT: A Student Approach to Building Skills Needed to Serve Poor CommunitiesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book will be of interest to practitioners, scholars, and students in public health as well as those framing and implementing health policies in the private and public sectors.Trade ReviewExtremely well presented and straightforward to read. The chapters are structured, leading the reader through the important concepts and offering suggestions for action. It is well written and accessible to those with an interest in this field. Nursing TimesTable of ContentsList of ContributorsAckowledgmentsIntroduction. Noncommunicable Diseases in the Devleoping World: Cloing the GapChapter 1. Regulation of NCD Medicines in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: Current Challenges and Future ProspectsChapter 2. Improving Access to Medicines for Noncommunicable Diseases through Better Supply ChainsChapter 3. Learning from the HIV/AIDS Experience to Improvde NCD InterventionsChapter 4. Reconfiguring Primary Care for the Era of Chronic and Noncommunicable DiseasesChapter 5. Sectoral Cooperation for the Prevention and Control of NCDsConclusion. The Devloping World and the Challenge of Noncommunicable DiseasesIndex

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