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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 29.1 (2004) 161-164



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Encyclopedia of Aids. Raymond A. Smith. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2003. 782 pp. $25.00 paper.

Aging

Doing Good for the Aged: Volunteers in an Ombudsman Program. Pat M. Keith. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 176 pp. $62.95 cloth.

Reinventing Care: Assisted Living in New York City. David Barton Smith. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. 224 pp. $49.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Economics and Finance

Managed Care and Monopoly Power: The Antitrust Challenge. Deborah Haas-Wilson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 256 pp. $45.00 cloth.

Measuring the Gains from Medical Research: An Economic Approach. Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 240 pp. $27.50 cloth.

Health Care Delivery

Advances in Health Care Organization Theory. Stephen S. Mick and Mindy E.
Wyttenbach. Somerset, NY: John Wiley, 2003. 432 pp. $48.00 cloth.

Health and Health Care 2010: The Forecast, the Challenge. Institute for the Future. Somerset, NY: John Wiley, 2003. 400 pp. $35.00 paper.

Health Information Systems, Design Issues and Analytic Applications. Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Cheryl L. Damberg, Eve A. Kerr, and Robert H. Brook. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1998. 259 pp. $55.00 cloth; $40.00 paper. [End Page 161]

Standards for Health Services in Correctional Institutions. APHA Task Force on Correctional Health Care Standards. Chicago: American Public Health Association, 2003. 182 pp. $37.95 paper.

Teaching the Practitioners of Care: New Pedagogies for the Health Professions. Nancy L. Diekelmann. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. 284 pp. $60.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Health Law and Biomedical Ethics

Backlash against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights. Linda Hamilton Krieger. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 408 pp. $52.50 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Between Law and Politics: The Solicitor General and the Structuring of Race, Gender, and Reproductive Rights Litigation. Richard L. Pacelle. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2003. 342 pp. $50.00 cloth.

Children, Ethics and Modern Medicine. Richard B. Miller. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. 305 pp. $34.95 cloth.

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Manual for Research Ethics Committees: Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London. Sue Echstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 578 pp. $175.00 cloth.

Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans with Disabilities. David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 274 pp. $19.00 paper.

Strangers in the Night: Law and Medicine in the Managed Care Era. Peter D. Jacobson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 320 pp. $34.95 cloth.

Health Politics and Policy

Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing. Dana Beth Weinberg. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 256 pp. $25.00 cloth.

The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States. Jacob Hacker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 464 pp. $55.00 cloth; $23.00 paper.

For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State. Jennifer Klein. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 376 pp. $35.00 cloth. [End Page 162]

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Letters to a Young Activist. Todd Gitlin. New York: Basic, 2003. 192 pp. $22.50 cloth.

Public Health in the Market: Facing Managed Care, Lean Government, and Health Disparities. Nancy Milo. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 322 pp. $50.00 cloth.

Sane Solutions for Troubled Kids with and without Psychiatric Drugs. Lawrence H. Diller. New York: Basic, 2002. 243 pp...

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