This important collection of essays, originating in a 1989 conference on the disadvantaged in American health care, provides incisive commentary on U.S. health care policy and politics. Examining public responses to health crises and analyzing the political logic of the American community, this volume charts the immobility of U.S. health policy in recent years and points to its disastrous consequences for the 1990s. Focusing on the particular needs of disadvantaged groups the elderly, children, people with AIDS, the mentally ill, the chemically dependent, the homeless, the hungry, the...
This important collection of essays, originating in a 1989 conference on the disadvantaged in American health care, provides incisive commentary on U....