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(Critical Issues in Health and Medicine.) Edited by Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns. 364 pp. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2006. $68 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8135-3837-2 (cloth); 978-0-8135-3838-9 (paper).

In this book, a distinguished group of historians and social scientists have written 13 chapters organized around the idea that history can, and should, inform contemporary decisions on health policy. In the introduction, Rosemary Stevens underscores the power of historical writing, which both creates a narrative that defines the way we collectively see the world and allows us to consider a wider range of possibilities for today's health policy options.

The book acknowledges the complexity of health policy in its inclusion of a range of topics and analytic approaches. Robert Cook-Deegan and Michael McGeary describe the development of the National . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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