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By Carol S. Weissert and William G. Weissert. 361 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. $24.95. ISBN 0-8018-5266-8.

There are riveting books about politics and books about riveting politics. The Weisserts have created a competent example of the latter type, concentrating their attention on the way in which the American political system — and especially its national institutions — deals with issues in the varied world of medical care.

The work is a useful textbook for those in medical care with only passing knowledge of the patterns of federal policy making in the postwar period. It is as if the Weisserts set out to write a textbook on American politics, but almost exclusively used examples of controversies in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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