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Reasoning About Madness

Product Description: The exact definition of "madness" remains elusive. There are difficulties in distinguishing the criminal from the mad or, more euphemistically, the mentally ill. Controversy has centered on the frightening potential possessed by the state to deprive of his rights the individual officially classified as mad...read more

By David Mechanic (introduced by)

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9781412810579 | Transaction Pub, October 31, 2009, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The exact definition of "madness" remains elusive.

The Truth About Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America

By David Mechanic

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9780813538877 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 25, 2006, cover price $26.95

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9780813543529 | Rutgers Univ Pr, March 30, 2008, cover price $23.95

Mental Health and Social Policy: Beyond Managed Care

Product Description: ALERT:Â Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that youÂ select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

By David Mechanic

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9780205922437 | 6 pck pap/ edition (Prentice Hall, February 13, 2013), cover price $141.67 | About this edition: ALERT:Â Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that youÂ select the correct ISBN.

9780205545933 | 5th edition (Prentice Hall, May 30, 2007), cover price $105.00

Policy Challenges In Modern Health Care

Product Description: Health care delivery in the United States is an enormously complex enterprise, and its $1.6 trillion annual expenditures involve a host of competing interests. While arguably the nation offers among the most technologically advanced medical care in the world, the American system consistently under performs relative to its resources...read more

By David C. Colby (editor), David Mechanic (editor) and Lynn B. Rogut (editor)

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9780813535777 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 25, 2005, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: Health care delivery in the United States is an enormously complex enterprise, and its $1.

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9780813535784 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 25, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Health care delivery in the United States is an enormously complex enterprise, and its $1.

Mental Health and Social Policy: The Emergence of Managed Care

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By David Mechanic

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9780205269938 | 4 sub edition (Allyn & Bacon, October 1, 1998), cover price $111.40

Managed Behavioral Health Care: Current Realities and Future Potential

Product Description: Discussions of managed care are dominated by emotion and rhetoric and failure to differentiate among the varying structures, approaches, and strategies that are called managed care. These discussions rarely take account of the complexity of the arena or the failures of mental health systems prior to the introduction of managed care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Mechanic (editor)

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9780787914295 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, June 1, 1998, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Discussions of managed care are dominated by emotion and rhetoric and failure to differentiate among the varying structures, approaches, and strategies that are called managed care.

Improving Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment in an Era of Managed Care

Product Description: Specialized psychiatric units in general hospitals have become the primary source of acute psychiatric care in the United States. Given their importance, it is remarkable how little we really know about these units' treatment and rehabilitation practices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Mechanic (editor)

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9780787998523 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, March 15, 1997, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Specialized psychiatric units in general hospitals have become the primary source of acute psychiatric care in the United States.

Inescapable Decisions: The Imperatives of Health Reform

Product Description: Inescapable Decisions examines the disarray in the American health care system and proposes major corrective strategies. Mechanic shows that the high-technology interventionist type of medicine commonly practiced in the United States has lost its sense of priorities and balance...read more

By David Mechanic

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9781560001218 | Transaction Pub, October 1, 1993, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: Inescapable Decisions examines the disarray in the American health care system and proposes major corrective strategies.

New Directions for Mental Health Services

Product Description: First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Ann A. Hohmann (editor), David Mechanic and Carl Taube

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9781560321408 | Routledge, October 1, 1990, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: First published in 1990.

Paying for Services: Promises and Pitfalls of Capitation

By Laura H. Aiken (editor) and David Mechanic

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9781555428525 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, September 1, 1989, cover price $15.95

Painful Choices: Research and Essays on Health Care

Product Description: More than ever, society faces painful choices in the allocation of resources for health care. How it makes these choices, and how wise they are, will determine the quality and character of health care for years to come. David Mechanic examines existing and impending dilemmas the American health care system must manage as it confronts these choices...read more

By David Mechanic

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9780887382581 | Transaction Pub, April 1, 1989, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: More than ever, society faces painful choices in the allocation of resources for health care.

Mental Health and Social Policy

By David Mechanic

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9780135760345 | 3rd ed. edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1989), cover price $56.45 | also contains The Red Beast: Controlling Anger in Children With Asperger's Syndrome

Pain and Disability: Clinical, Behavioral, and Public Policy Perspectives

By Arthur Kleinman, David Mechanic (editor) and Marian Osterweis

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9780309037372 | Natl Academy Pr, May 1, 1987, cover price $29.95

Improving Mental Health Services: What the Social Sciences Can Tell Us

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By David Mechanic (editor)

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9781555429447 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, February 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Book by

Applications of Social Science to Clinical Medicine and Health Policy

Product Description: Book by Aiken, Linda H.

By Linda H. Aiken and David Mechanic (editor)

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9780813511498 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Book by Aiken, Linda H.

From Advocacy to Allocation: The Evolving American Health Care System

By David Mechanic

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9780029208601 | Free Pr, February 1, 1986, cover price $15.95

From Advocacy to Allocation: Evolving American Health Care System

By David Mechanic

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9780029208304 | Free Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $27.95

Symptoms, Illness Behavior, and Help-Seeking

By David Mechanic (editor)

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9780813510057 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $15.00

Handbook of Health, Health Care, and the Health Professions

By David Mechanic (editor)

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9780029206904 | Free Pr, March 1, 1983, cover price $80.00

Readings in Medical Sociology

By David Mechanic (editor)

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9780029207000 | Free Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $16.95 | also contains Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings

Future Issues in Health Care

Considers the people and politics involved in the American health care system with special emphasis on financial concerns, proposing methods for systematically allocating increasingly more expensive and specialized diagnostic and therapeutic services

By David Mechanic

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9780029207109 | Free Pr, March 1, 1979, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Considers the people and politics involved in the American health care system with special emphasis on financial concerns, proposing methods for systematically allocating increasingly more expensive and specialized diagnostic and therapeutic services

Students Under Stress: A Study in the Social Psychology of Adaptation

By David Mechanic

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Hardcover:

9780299074708 | Reprint edition (Univ of Wisconsin Pr, May 1, 1978), cover price $20.00

Paperback:

9780299074746 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, May 1, 1978, cover price $10.95 | also contains Busy Kids Learn the Alphabet

Medical Sociology

By David Mechanic

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Hardcover:

9780029207208 | 2 edition (Free Pr, March 1, 1978), cover price $29.95 | also contains Guitar Studies: Grade 2

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