Volume 5 reviews recent advances in membrane transport, physiology, emphasizing transport mechanisms that have been foci for intensive investigation over the past 5 years. From this work, it has become abundantly clear that these same transport mechanisms are found in many different types of cells and tissues, but that they can be arranged in various combinations with other transporters in order to provide a givencell with unique transport characteristics. Similarly, distribution of thesemembrane transporters between apical and basolateral membranes in epithelia in various combinations with...

Unevenly distributed resources and rising costs have become enduring problems in the American health care system. Health care is more expensive in the United States than in other wealthy nations, and access varies significantly across space and social classes. James A. Schafer Jr. shows that these problems are not inevitable features of modern medicine, but instead reflect the informal organization of health care in a free market system in which profit and demand, rather than social welfare and public health needs, direct the distribution and cost of crucial resources.

The Business...

Unevenly distributed resources and rising costs have become enduring problems in the American health care system. Health care is more expensive in the United States than in other wealthy nations, and access varies significantly across space and social classes. James A. Schafer Jr. shows that these problems are not inevitable features of modern medicine, but instead reflect the informal organization of health care in a free market system in which profit and demand, rather than social welfare and public health needs, direct the distribution and cost of crucial resources.

The Business...