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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 25.1 (2000) 261-266



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AIDS

Women, Families, and HIV/AIDS. Carole Campbell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 268 pp. $49.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.

Comparative Studies of Health Care Delivery, Politics, and Policy

The Abortion Debate in the World Arena. Andrzej Kulczycki. New York: Routledge, 1999. 263 pp. $80.00 cloth; $24.99 paper.

Accidental Logics: The Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Carolyn Hughes Tuohy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 325 pp. $45.00 cloth.

Economics and Finance

The Productivity of Health Care and Pharmaceuticals: An International Comparison. H. E. Frech III and Richard D. Miller Jr. Washington, DC: AEI, 1999. 108 pp. $14.95 paper.

Health Care Delivery

After Restructuring: Empowerment Strategies at Work in America's Hospitals. Thomas G. Rundall, David B. Starkweather, and Barbara R. Norrish. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. 318 pp. $42.95 cloth.

Alternative Health Care: Medicine, Miracle, or Mirage? Michael S. Goldstein. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 286 pp. $59.50 cloth; $19.95
paper.

Experiencing Cancer: Quality of Life in Treatment. Kirsten Costain Schou and Jenny Hewison. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1999. 205 pp. $85.00 cloth; $27.95 paper.

Evidence-Based Decisionmaking for Community Health Programs. Catherine A. Jackson, Kathryn Pitkin, and Raynard Kington. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1998. 100 pp. $15.00 paper.

Managing Integrated Delivery Systems: A Framework for Action. David W. Young and Sheila M. McCarthy. Chicago, IL: Health Administration, 1999. 238 pp. $38.00 paper.

Medical Mishaps: Pieces of the Puzzle. Marilynn Rosenthal, Linda Mulcahy, and Sally Lloyd-Bostock, eds. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1999. 284 pp. $95.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Mission Management: A New Synthesis, Volume 1. Roger J. Bulger, Marian Osterweis, and Elaine R. Rubin, eds. Washington, DC: Association of Academic Health Centers, 1999. 277 pp. $25.00 paper.

Mission Management: A New Synthesis, Vol. 2. Elaine R. Rubin, ed. Washington, DC: Association of Academic Health Centers, 1999. 423 pp. $30.00 paper.

The New Health Partners: Renewing the Leadership of Physician Practice. Stephen E. Prather et al. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999. 369 pp. $39.95 cloth.

Parting Company: Understanding the Loss of a Loved One. Cynthia Pearson and Margaret L. Stubbs. Seattle, WA: Seal, 1999. 346 pp. $18.95 paper.

Physician Profiling: A Source Book for Health Care Administrators. Neill F. Piland and Kerstin B. Lynman, eds. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999. 201 pp. $42.95 cloth.

Programming for Adolescent Health and Development. WHO/UNFPA/UNICEF Study Group on Programming for Adolescent Health. Geneva: WHO, 1999. 266 pp. $50.40 paper.

Rapid Health Assessment Protocols for Emergencies. World Health Organization. Geneva: WHO, 1999. 103 pp. $27.90 paper.

Reflections on Palliative Care: Sociological and Policy Perspectives. David Clark and Jane Seymour. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1999. 221 pp. $85.00 cloth; $28.95 paper.

History and Humanities

African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 297 pp. $39.95 cloth.

Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930. Evelyn Maxine Hammonds. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 308 pp. $39.95 cloth.

Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn. Regina Morantz-Sanchez. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 303 pp. $30.00 cloth.

Fast Lives: Women Who Use Crack Cocaine. Claire E. Sterk. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 251 pp. $59.50 cloth; $19.95 paper.

Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. Alice Domurat Dreger. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 281 pp. $35.00 cloth.

The History of Pain. Roselyne Rey. Louise Elliott Wallace, J. A. Cadden, and S. W. Cadden, trans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. 394 pp. $42.50 cloth; $18.95 paper.

Inventing Pain Medicine: From the Laboratory to the Clinic. Isabelle Baszanger. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 352 pp. $50.00 cloth; $22.00 paper.

The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine. Carl Elliott and John D...

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