Books Received
Aging
Ageing and Ageing Policy in Germany. Thomas Scharf. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 256 pp. $55.00 cloth.
Comparative Studies of Health Care Delivery, Politics, and Policy
Dealing with Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Sherry Saggers and Dennis Gray. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 247 pp. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.
Health Care Systems in Transition: An International Perspective. Francis D. Powell and Albert F. Wessen, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999. 440 pp. $39.95 paper.
Hurdles and Levers: A Comparative US-UK Study of Guidelines. Patricia Day, Rudolf Klein, and Frances Miller. London: Nuffield Trust, 1998. 68 pp. £10.50.
Quality, Evidence, and Effectiveness in Health Promotion: Striving for Certainties. John Kenneth Davies and Gordon MacDonald, eds. New York: Routledge, 1998. 235 pp. $85.00 cloth; $25.99 paper.
Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification, and Intellectual Disability. Richard Jenkins, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 259 pp. $59.95 cloth; $22.95 paper.
Health Care Delivery
Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach. Leiyu Shi and Douglas A. Singh. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen, 1998. 614 pp. $49.00 paper.
Immigrant Women's Health: Problems and Solutions. Elizabeth J. Kramer, Susan L. Ivey, and Yu-Wen Ying, eds. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999. 256 pp. $47.95 cloth.
Promoting Safe and Effective Genetic Testing in the United States: Final Report of the Task Force on Genetic Testing. Neil A. Holtzman and Michael S. Watson, eds. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 210 pp. $60.00 cloth; $28.00 paper.
Personal Assistance: The Future of Home Care. Robert Morris, Francis G. Caro, and John E. Hansan. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 216 pp. $48.00 cloth; $18.95 paper.
History and Humanities
Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom. Mariana Valverde. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 263 pp. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.
From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology. Deborah Kuhn McGregor. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 272 pp. $55.00 cloth; $23.00 paper.
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Joel Braslow. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 254 pp. $27.50 cloth.
On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970. Elizabeth Siegel Watkins. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 191 pp. $25.95 cloth.
Law and Ethics
Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making in Health Care: United States, Germany, and Japan. Hans-Martin Sass, Robert M. Veatch, and Rihito Kimura, eds. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 326 pp. $48.00 cloth.
Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy. Alfred I. Tauber. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. 160 pp. $25.00 cloth.
Ethical Challenges in Managed Care: A Casebook. Karen G. Gervais et al., eds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999. 384 pp. $60.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.
Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease: Ethical and Clinical Issues. Stephen G. Post and Peter J. Whitehouse, eds. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 298 pp. $45.00 cloth.
Politics and Policy
Crack Mothers: Pregnancy, Drugs, and the Media. Drew Humphries. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. 217 pp. $30.00 cloth.
Crime, Punishment, and the Drinking Offender. Judith Rumgay. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 244 pp. $59.95 cloth.
Medicare HMOs: Making Them Work for the Chronically Ill. Richard Kronick and Joy de Beyer, eds. Chicago: Health Administration Press, 1999. 249 pp. $40.00 paper.
Nothing about Us without Us: Disability, Oppression, and Empowerment. James I. Charlton. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 247 pp. $27.50 cloth.
The Politics of Drug Control. Mandy Bentham. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 256 pp. $65.00 cloth.
Pregnant Women on Drugs: Combating Stereotypes and Stigma. Sheigla Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. 192 pp. $49.00 cloth; $19.00 paper.
Understanding the U.S. Health Services System. Phoebe Lindsey Barton. Chicago: Health Administration Press, 1999. 473 pp. $62.00 cloth.
Women's Studies
Women's Health: Complexities and Differences. Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Virginia L. Olesen, and Adele E. Clarke, eds. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. 703 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.
Public and Environmental Health
Environmental Cancer: A Political Disease? S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 208 pp. $35.00 cloth; $17.00 paper.
In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race. Melbourne Tapper. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 163 pp. $22.50 cloth.
Managed Care and Public Health. Paul K. Halverson, Arnold D. Kaluzny, and Curtis P. McLaughlin, eds., with Glen P. Mays, Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen, 1998. 484 pp. $50.00 cloth.
Miscellaneous
Class Action: Reading Labor, Theory, and Value. William Corlett. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 242 pp. $45.00 cloth; $18.95 paper.
Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment. David E. Camacho, ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 240 pp. $49.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.
Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics, and Economics. R. Douglas Arnold, Michael J. Graetz, and Alicia H. Munnell, eds. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998. 200 pp. $19.95 paper.
The Natural Year: A Seasonal Guide to Alternative Health and Beauty. Jane Alexander. New York: Avon, 1997. 408 pp. $13.50 paper.
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Justice System. David Cole. New York: New Press, 1999. 224 pp. $25.00 cloth.
Random Violence: How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims. Joel Best. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 257 pp. $45.00 cloth; $17.95 paper.
Toward an End to Hunger in America. Peter K. Eisinger. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998. 177 pp. $39.95 cloth; $16.95 paper.
Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market. Frederic L. Pryor and David L. Schaffer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 313 pp. $34.95 cloth.
