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New perspectives on public health policy / edited by James Mohr.

Contributor(s): Mohr, James CMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Issues in policy history (Unnumbered)Publication details: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2008Description: 144 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780271027579 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0271027576 (pbk. : alk. paper)Uniform titles: Journal of policy history. Subject(s): Medical policy -- History -- 20th century | Health Policy -- history -- Essays | History, 20th Century -- Essays | History, 21st Century -- Essays | Policy Making -- EssaysDDC classification: 362.1 LOC classification: RA393 | .N49 2008NLM classification: WA 11.1
Partial contents:
Introduction: new perspectives on public health policy / James Mohr Reform and its discontents: public health in New York City during the Great Society / James Colgrove Crisis and opportunity in drug policy: changing the direction of British drug services in the 1980s / Virginia Berridge and Alex Mold The other war on drugs: the pharmaceutical industry, evidence-based medicine, and clinical practice / Howard I. Kushner The contingent power of experts in the market-place of knowledge / Constance A. Nathanson Learning to walk slow: America's partial policy success in the arena of intellectual disability / Harold Pollack Sanemori's revenge: insects, eco-system accidents, and policy decisions in Japan's environmental history / Brett L. Walker.
Summary: "A collection of essays examining public health policy and the decision-making process behind it"--Provided by publisher.
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"This work was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Policy History (vol. 19, no. 1, 2007)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: new perspectives on public health policy / James Mohr Reform and its discontents: public health in New York City during the Great Society / James Colgrove Crisis and opportunity in drug policy: changing the direction of British drug services in the 1980s / Virginia Berridge and Alex Mold The other war on drugs: the pharmaceutical industry, evidence-based medicine, and clinical practice / Howard I. Kushner The contingent power of experts in the market-place of knowledge / Constance A. Nathanson Learning to walk slow: America's partial policy success in the arena of intellectual disability / Harold Pollack Sanemori's revenge: insects, eco-system accidents, and policy decisions in Japan's environmental history / Brett L. Walker.

"A collection of essays examining public health policy and the decision-making process behind it"--Provided by publisher.

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