This article examines the continuing controversies regarding personal versus social
responsibility for health as they are being played out at the turn of the century. Following a …

National health systems throughout the world face a number of pressures in common related
to demography, epidemiology, developments in science and technology, medical demand …

Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related
behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural …

At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American
medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root …

Racism in medicine, a problem with roots over 2,500 years old, is a historical continuum that
continuously affects African-American health and the way they receive healthcare. Racism …

The 2010 Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare, as its detractors like to call it) is a sweeping
reform to the US health care system. Despite the fact that nearly every other developed …

Probably the most important implication of medicine's economic revolution is that it forces us
to reconsider, not just financial arrangements, but some long-and widely-held tenets of …

Quality-adjusted life-years have been used in economic analyses as a measure of health
outcomes, one that reflects both lives saved and patients' valuations of quality of life in …

There is a specter haunting the American health care system. It is the prospect of
widespread chronic illness and disability in an aging society. With it comes a daunting …

" An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time."--Health and
Canadian Society" Insightful and thought-provoking.... As Caplan has demonstrated so …