Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna BowenMatthew. New York, New York University Press, 2015. 288 pp. $30.00.

2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-179
Author(s):  
Nancy López
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New York ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
New York University ◽  
American Health Care

A Collision of Noble Goals: Protecting Human Subjects, Improving Health Care, and a Research Agenda for Political Science

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (03) ◽  
pp. 507-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Tolleson-Rinehart
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New York ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
New York Times ◽  
American Health Care System ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
System Failures ◽  
American Health Care ◽  
Improving Health Care

Atul Gawande is a surgeon who began creating vivid word paintings of the performance of the American health care system inThe New Yorker'spages while he was still a resident. Those of us who are immersed in, and charged with measuring, that system—as I have been for the last decade—find his “Annals of Medicine” column's evocations of heroic system successes and frightening system failures true to the processes we more prosaically try to analyze and evaluate. In December 2007 Gawande published aNew Yorkeressay called “The Checklist,” followed just days later by an op-ed piece in theNew York Times(Gawande 2007a; 2007b).

Public Health Policies and Social Inequality By Charles F. Andrain. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 292p. $50.00. The Politics of Health in Europe. By Richard Freeman. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000. 164p. $69.95. Governing the Health Care State: A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany By Michael Moran. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. 196p. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Accidental Logics: The Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada By Carolyn Hughes Tuohy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 312p. $45.00.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-227
Author(s):  
Theodore Marmor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
New York University ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Four Books ◽  
Care Systems

International meetings about health-care issues—conferences, symposia, cyber-gatherings—have become something of an epidemic in the past decade. There is a brisk trade in the latest panaceas offered for the various real and imagined ills of modern medical care systems. When policy fixes fail in their country of origin, they are regularly offered to unsuspecting audiences elsewhere. Moreover, what travels as comparative analysis is often simply a collection of parallel descriptions of national health arrangements. So when there is a flurry of systematic comparative studies of health care by political scientists, a development illustrated by the four books under review, one ought to pay attention.

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