Books Received

AIDS

No Time to Lose: Getting More from HIV Prevention. Monica S. Ruiz et al., eds. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000. 179 pp. $39.95 cloth.

Comparative Studies of Health Care Delivery, Politics, and Policy

Global Health Care Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Regions, Trends, and Opportunities Shaping the International Health Arena. Walter W. Wieners, ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. 439 pp. $69.95 cloth.

The World Health Report 2000. Health Systems: Improving Performance. Geneva: World Health Organization. 2000. 234 pp. $13.50 paper.

Economics and Finance

The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions. David M. Cutler, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 377 pp. $53.00 cloth.

Healthcare Systems and Hospital Bed Use. Madelon Kroneman. Utrecht, Netherlands: ICS dissertation, 2001. 181 pp.

Understanding Medicare Managed Care: Meeting Economic, Strategic, and Policy Challenges. Louis F. Rossiter. Chicago: Health Administration Press, 2001. 391 pp. $65.00 cloth.

The U.S. Nursing Home Industry. Joseph A. Giacalone. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. 278 pp. $60.95 cloth.

Health Care Delivery

Assisted Living: Current Issues in Facility Management and Resident Care. Kevan H. Namazi and Paul Chafetz, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001. 251 pp. $65.00 cloth.

Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001. 355 pp. $44.95 cloth.

E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine: A Guide to Start-Up and Success. Marlene M. Maheu, Pamela Whitten, and Ace Allen. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. 399 pp. $59.95 cloth.

Mental Health Care Administration: A Guide for Practitioners. Paul Rodenhauser, ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 276 pp. $49.50 cloth.

New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Approach. Burton H. Singer and Carol D. Ryff, eds. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001. 223 pp. $39.00 paper.

Shifting the Paradigm in Community Mental Health: Toward Empowerment and Community. Geoffrey Nelson, John Lord, and Joanna Ochocka. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 311 pp. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Strategies for the New Health Care Marketplace: Making the Convergence of Consumerism and Technology. Dean C. Coddington, Elizabeth A. Fischer, and Keith D. Moore. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. 446 pp. $49.95 cloth.

To Improve Health and Health Care 2001: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology. Stephen L. Isaacs and James R. Knickman, eds. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. 292 pp. $20.95 paper.

Women's Health on the Internet. M. Sandra Wood and Janet M. Coggan, eds. Binghamton, NY: Haworth, 2000. 153 pp. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.

History and Humanities

An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race, Beginnings to 1900. W. Michael Byrd and Linda A. Clayton. New York: Routledge, 2000. 616 pp. $35.00 cloth.

Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics. M. L. Tina Stevens. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 220 pp. $39.95 cloth.

Bioethics in Social Context. Barry Hoffmaster, ed. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001. 241 pp. $69.50 cloth; $22.95 paper.

Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922. Katrin Schultheiss. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 254 pp. $49.95 cloth.

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health. Keith Wailoo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 347 pp. $34.95 cloth; $16.95 paper.

The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease. Hervé Bazin. Andrew and Glenise Morgan, trans. New York: Academic Press, 2000. 266 pp. $49.95 cloth.

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. David T. Courtwright. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 285 pp. $24.95 cloth.

Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-ease. Gay Wilentz. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000. 215 pp. $50.00 cloth; $20.00 paper.

The History of Regional Medical Programs: The Life and Death of a Small Initiative of the...