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Volume 331:486-487 August 18, 1994 Number 7
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Growing Old Gracefully
Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy

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By Daniel M. Fox. 183 pp., illustrated. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993. $20. ISBN 0-520-08409-8.

Daniel Fox has written a brave and important book. Combining his expertise as a historian and a policy analyst, he reveals the soft underbelly of the debate over health care reform -- its problematic assumptions and its fundamental limitations. We are still doing what Fox shows has been done for decades: trying to shoehorn the special needs of people with chronic diseases into a system designed to treat acute illnesses. Power and Illness provides considerable insight into why we have done that in the past, why it is so difficult to stop doing it now, and why we simply must . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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