New perspectives on public health policy /
"A collection of essays examining public health policy and the decision-making process behind it"--Provided by publisher.
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| Language: | English |
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Issues in policy history (Unnumbered)
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Table of 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.