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This book shows why American social policy was incomplete with
respect to the arts and argues that art museums are an instructive
example of the accommodation of public and private interests. It is
useful for political scientists, policymakers, scholars of
philanthropy, artists, and historians.
Originally published in 1990, Nobel Laureates in Medicine or
Physiology is a biographical reference work about the recipients of
Nobel Prizes in Medicine or Physiology from 1901-1989. Each article
is written by an accomplished historian of medicine or science. The
book is designed to be accessible to students and general readers
as well as to specialists in medical science and history. Each
article combines personal and scientific biography, and each has an
extensive biography to guide further reading and research.
This book shows why American social policy was incomplete with
respect to the arts and argues that art museums are an instructive
example of the accommodation of public and private interests. It is
useful for political scientists, policymakers, scholars of
philanthropy, artists, and historians.
Originally published in 1990, Nobel Laureates in Medicine or
Physiology is a biographical reference work about the recipients of
Nobel Prizes in Medicine or Physiology from 1901-1989. Each article
is written by an accomplished historian of medicine or science. The
book is designed to be accessible to students and general readers
as well as to specialists in medical science and history. Each
article combines personal and scientific biography, and each has an
extensive biography to guide further reading and research.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, from popular literature,
movies, and television drama to government and institutional
documents, this book reveals similarities in the presumptions
underlying British and American health policies, while also
exploring the distinctive way in which policy was shaped by
political culture, class relationships, and economic resources in
each country.
Originally published in 1986.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, from popular literature,
movies, and television drama to government and institutional
documents, this book reveals similarities in the presumptions
underlying British and American health policies, while also
exploring the distinctive way in which policy was shaped by
political culture, class relationships, and economic resources in
each country. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
Daniel M. Fox gives an incisive assessment of the critical
collaboration between researchers and public officials that has
recently emerged to evaluate the effectiveness and comparative
effectiveness of health services. Drawing on research as well as
his first-hand experience in policymaking, Fox's broad-ranging
analysis describes how politics, public finance and management, and
advances in research methods made this convergence of science and
governance possible. The book then widens into a sweeping history
of central issues in research on health services and health
governance during the past century. Returning to the past decade,
Fox looks closely at how policy informed by research has been made
and implemented in public programs that cover pharmaceutical drugs
in most American states. This case study illuminates how politics
has informed the questions, methods, and reception of research on
health services, and also sheds new light on how research has
informed politics and public management. Looking toward the future,
Fox describes the promise, as well as the fragility, of the
convergence of science and governance, making his book essential
reading for those struggling to revise health care in the United
States over the next several years.
During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized
caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing
chronic illness - even though chronic illness has caused most
sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and
wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this has been so and
offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national
health care priorities. Fox discusses how ideas about illness and
health care, as well as the power of special interest groups, have
shaped the ways in which Americans have treated illness. Those who
make health policy decisions have increased support for hospitals,
physicians, and medical research, believing that people then would
become healthier. This position, implemented at considerable cost,
has not adequately taken into account the growing burden of chronic
disabling illness. While decision makers may have defined chronic
disease as a high priority in research, they have not given it such
a priority in the financing of health services. The increasing
burden of chronic illness is critical. Fox suggests ways to solve
this problem without increasing the already high cost of health
care - but he does not underestimate the difficulties in such a
strategy. Advocating the redistribution of resources within
hospital and medical services, he targets those that are redundant
or marginally effective. There could be no more timely subject
today than American health care. And Daniel Fox is uniquely able to
address its problems. A historian of medicine, with knowledge of
how hospitals and physicians behave and how health policy is made
at government levels, he has extensively researched published and
unpublished documents on health care. What he proposes could
profoundly affect all Americans.
When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that
it was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease. They thought AIDS,
as a plague, would resemble the great epidemics of the past: it
would be devastating but would soon subside, perhaps never to
return. By the middle 1980s, however, it became increasingly clear
that AIDS was a chronic infection, not a classic plague. In this
follow-up to AIDS: The Burdens of History, editors Elizabeth Fee
and Daniel M. Fox present essays that describe how AIDS has come to
be regarded as a chronic disease. Representing diverse fields and
professions, the twenty-three contributors to this work use
historical methods to analyze politics and public policy, human
rights issues, and the changing populations with HIV infection.
They examine the federal government's testing of drugs for cancer
and HIV, and show how the policy makers' choice of a specific
historical model (chronic disease versus plague) affected their
decisions. A powerful photo essay reveals the strengths of women
from various backgrounds and lifestyles who are coping with HIV. A
sensitive account of the complex relationships of the gay community
to AIDS is included. Finally, several contributors provide a
sampling of international perspectives on the impact of AIDS in
other nations.
The book contains more than 250 photographs which are
representative of the thousands that were studied. Each photograph
is evaluated and interpreted in terms of the intended meaning and
purpose of the images. . . . This book is a pleasure to read and
represents the distillation of many hundreds of hours reviewing
photographic materials. . . . The basic information regarding the
interpretation of photographic conventions should be of great
interest to both photographers and those with an interest in the
cultural histories of Britain and the US. Journal of Biological
Photography With a perspective shaped by recent work in art history
and the sociology of knowledge, the authors encourage the reader to
analyze photographs as complicated historical documents. They argue
that, while photographs may appear to be literal depictions of
reality, they actually pose profound problems of historical
interpretation. The authors take as their subject matter the
representation of medicine in photographs taken in Britain and the
United States from 1840 through the present day. They have studied
thousands of photographs, more than 250 of which are reprinted in
this volume, in conjunction with other primary sources and
historical accounts. The text explores the representations of
medicine made by photographers and their employers, and the ways
that audiences through the years have interpreted their messages.
When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that is was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease. They throught AIDS, as a plague, would resemble the great epidemics of the past: it would be devastating but would soon subside, perhaps never to return. By the middle 1980s, however, it became increasingly clear that AIDS was a chronic infection, not a classic plague.;In this follow-up to "AIDS: The Burden of History", the editors present essays that describe how AIDS has come to be regarded as a chronic disease. Representing diverse fields and professions, the 23 contributors to this work use historical methods to analyze politics and public policy, human rights issues, and the changing populations with HIV infection. They examine the federal government's testing of drugs for cancer and HIV and show how the policy makers' choice of a specific historical model (chronic disease versus plague) affected their decisions.;A photo essay reveals the strength of women from various backgrounds and lifestyles who are coping with HIV. An account of the complex relationships of the gay community to AIDS is included. Finally, several contributors provide a sampling of international perspectives on the impact of AIDS in other nations.
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