Contributors
- Contributors
Janet L. Abrahm, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine (hematology / oncology division) and a member of the Center for Bioethics and the Institute on Aging of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Abrahm is a faculty scholar of the Project on Death in America, serves as the medical director of the UPHS-affiliated Wissahickon hospice and directs a clinical fellowship in palliative care. She is the author of numerous journal articles and textbook chapters, and in 2000, Johns Hopkins University Press published her book, A Physician’s Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients.
Jessica R. Adolino is associate professor of political science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she specializes in Western European politics and international affairs. Her research interests primarily lie in the area of British politics and public policy, and she has recently published a book in this area, Ethnic Minorities, Electoral Politics and Political Integration in Britain (Pinter, 1998). With Charles Blake, she has written a textbook on comparative public policy in industrialized countries, Comparing Public Policies (CQ Press, 2000) and is currently writing a textbook on the evolving European policy and problem environment and its implications for traditional modes of governance (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming).
David Barnard, Ph.D., is professor of medicine and director of Palliative Care Education at the Center for Bioethics and Health Law at the University of Pittsburgh. He was formerly University Professor and Chair of the Department of Humanities at the Penn State University College of Medicine. He is the coauthor, with Anna Towers, Patricia Boston, and Yanna Lambrinidou, of Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care, published in 2000 by Oxford University Press.
Michael D. Barr is a QUT Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Community and Cross-Cultural Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. His areas of academic interest focus on Singapore politics but range out to the Asian values debate. His first book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs behind the Man, was published in 2000 by Curzon Press in London, and Georgetown University Press in [End Page 819] Washington, D.C. He is currently writing a book provisionally titled Looking East? Cultural Politics and Asian Values.
Charles H. Blake is associate professor of political science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he specializes in comparative politics, comparative public policy, and research methods. His research agenda focuses primarily on political economy issues in Latin America and Europe. With Jessica Adolino, he has written a textbook on comparative public policy in industrialized countries, Comparing Public Policies (CQ Press, 2000). His work on comparative politics has been published in a variety of journals, and he is currently conducting research on market-oriented economic reform in Argentina and Uruguay with a fellowship from the Organization of American States.
Jon R. Gabel is the vice president of health systems studies at the Health Research and Education Trust, a position he began in 1999. Gabel is responsible for conducting studies and surveys that track changes in health and retirement benefits and the health care delivery system. He formerly was director of the Center for Survey Research for KPMG Peat Marwick LLP and served as a director of research for the American Association of Health Plans and the Health Insurance Association of America, industry trade associations representing health maintenance organizations and health insurance companies. He is also an economist at the Health Care Financing Adminstration and the National Center for Health Services Research.
Chris Ham is professor of health policy and management at the University of Birmingham, England, and director of the Health Services Management Centre at the university.
Peter J. Hammer is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School. He received his law degree (1990) and doctorate in economics (1993) from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the study of federal antitrust law and the legal issues surrounding changes in the health care industry. He is a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Investigator Award, Competing on Quality of Care: Comparing Antitrust Law to Market Reality. He also founded and directs the University of Michigan Law School’s Program for Cambodian Law & Development.
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