This volume analyzes in considerable depth how fears, prejudices, social and moral values, and individual perceptions have affected and shaped the public, the personal, the professional, and the economic ways…

This book is based on papers that were prepared for the Cornell University Medical College Second Conference on Health Policy held in New York City on February 27-28, 1986. It…

This volume reports the different ways in which various urban academic health centers are seeking to reposition themselves in order to protect and advance their primary missions of education, biomedical…

In one of the foremost critiques of the widespread view that in market-based economics the fluctuations of the marketplace are essentially self-regulating, Eli Ginzberg argues the reverse

This book, based on the Third Conference on Health Policy, is derived from those discussions that identified as a fundamental issue the translation of societal values into health care objectives…

Academic health centres (AHCs) played a key role in the USA’s advances in medicine, but they have largely ignored the medical care of their poor neighbours. This discussion asks whether…

This work examines the supply of health personnel in the USA. It considers the way it has been influenced by federal and state legislation, healthcare financing, the transformation of the…