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Health Care: The Disquieting Truth Arnold Relman

WebPerhaps the most significant defect in the new health care legislation is that it does not change how medical care is organized, paid for, and delivered. Although …

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The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It Paul …

Web1 “America’s Senior Moment,” The New York Review, March 10, 2005. ↩. 2. Cathy Schoen, Robin Osborn, Phuong Trang Huynh, Michelle Doty, Kinga Zapert, …

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Health Care: The Best and the Rest David Oshinsky

WebIn 1945 President Harry Truman delivered a special message to Congress laying out a plan for national health insurance. As an artillery officer in World War I, …

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The Power of the Doctors Arnold Relman The New York …

WebThe Power of the Doctors. Arnold Relman. March 29, 1984 issue. Reviewed: The Social Transformation of American Medicine. by Paul Starr. Basic Books, 514 pp., …

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Medicine Is Made for Men

WebMedicine Is Made for Men. In medical research, drug regulation, and product design, the male body is too often considered as the default—which can have …

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‘Catastrophic Care’: An Exchange

WebThe Congressional Budget Office has recently estimated that the higher overhead expenses and the profits of private insurance added about $150 billion to the …

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The Nothing Beyond Nothing

WebMaurice Blanchot's death drive. This was a period that allowed both ill-tempered splits and the compatibility of opposites, both heated invectives and …

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The Illusions of Psychiatry

WebThe Illusions of Psychiatry. Mimi Sarkisian, Louise Fletcher, and Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975. In my article in the last issue, I …

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The Doctor Who Made a Revolution Helen Epstein

WebBy the time Dr. Sara Josephine Baker retired from the New York City Health Department in 1923, she was famous across the nation for saving the lives of 90,000 …

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What Ails America Timothy Snyder The New York …

WebOur system of commercial medicine, dominated by private insurance, regional groups of private hospitals, and other powerful interests, looks more and more like a …

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Medical Research: The Dangers to the Human Subjects

Webby Robert L. Klitzman. Oxford University Press, 422 pp., $35.00. Every year millions of Americans (no one knows exactly how many) volunteer to be human subjects …

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Obama & Health Care: The Straight Story Jeff Madrick

WebJeff Madrick. Except for the US, no rich nation in the world fails to provide comprehensive health care that is free or inexpensive to its entire population. Yet …

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The Organ Market David J. Rothman The New York Review of …

WebSheila M. Rothman. Sheila M. Rothman is Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School, Columbia University. Their books written together include The …

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Illness as Metaphor Susan Sontag The New York Review of Books

WebSusan Sontag (1933–2004) was a novelist, playwright, filmmaker, and one of the most influential critics of her generation. Her books include Against Interpretation, On …

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The Medical-Industrial Complex Barbara Ehrenreich

WebI. The American crisis over health has finally taken a place alongside the urban crisis, the ecological crisis, and the “youth crisis” as the subject for solemn …

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Where Health Care Is a Human Right Nathan Whitlock

WebThat qualifier is important: the surface simplicity of Canada’s system masks some chronic problems. The biggest is budget pressure: health care spending is the …

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Is Israel Committing Genocide

WebThen, over the following six months, Saddam’s forces rounded up Kurdish men and boys from northern Iraq and bused them to a desert area where bulldozers had …

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An Unhealthy Definition of Rights Linda Greenhouse

Webby Wendy E. Parmet. Cambridge University Press, 235 pp., $75.00; $24.99 (paper) The public health profession uses the term “social determinants of health” to …

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The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why

WebIt seems that Americans are in the midst of a raging epidemic of mental illness, at least as judged by the increase in the numbers treated for it. Are we learning to …

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Ain’t It Always Stephen Stills

WebStephen Stills: Change Partners. by David Roberts. Red Planet, 326 pp., $26.95. VARA Broadcasting Association. Stephen Stills performing on the Dutch …

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