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New perspectives on public health policy / edited by James Mohr.

Other author/creatorMohr, James C.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoUniversity Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.
Description144 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Issues in policy history
Issues in policy history (Unnumbered) ^A1103554
Contents Introduction: new perspectives on public health policy / James Mohr -- Reform and its discontents: public health in New York City during the Great Society / James Colgrove -- Crisis and opportunity in drug policy: changing the direction of British drug services in the 1980s / Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge -- The other war on drugs: the pharmaceutical industry, evidence-based medicine, and clinical practice / Howard I. Kushner -- The contingent power of experts: public health policy in the United States, Britain, and France / Constance A. Nathanson -- Learning to walk slow: America's partial policy success in the arena of intellectual disability / Harold Pollack -- Sanemori's revenge: insects, eco-system accidents, and policy decisions in Japan's environmental history / Brett L. Walker.
Abstract "A collection of essays examining public health policy and the decision-making process behind it"--Provided by publisher.
General note"This work was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Policy History (vol. 19, no. 1, 2007)"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Other title Journal of policy history.
LCCN 2007043691
ISBN9780271027579 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0271027576 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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