The following iconoclastic (and brief) tomes should be included
1) AL Cochrane. Efficiency and effectiveness: random reflections on
health services research (Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1971)
2) P Skrabanek and J McCormick Follies and Fallacies in Medicine
(Tarragon Press, Glasgow 1989.1992) (some excellent humour here too!)
3) M Grossman, The Demand for Health: a theoretical and empirical
investigation (NBER 1972)
All classic because they emphasise in their different ways that the
impact of health care on health compared to genetics and behaviour, is
quite small! Those of you who read the poet Philip Larkin will recall
that he was clear who messed him up :his parents, with their blessed
genes and their impact on behaviour in relation to their investment in
their kids in the early years of life! A renewal of this approach can be
seen in the recent work of Economic's Nobel Laureate James Heckman
Be and do good!
Alan
Miriam Laugesen wrote:
> I like this idea. Here are two suggestions:
> "Paying the Doctor" by William A. Glaser (1970) and/or "Pressure Group
> Politics: The Case of the British Medical Association" by Harry
> Eckstein (1960).
> Miriam
>
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> Miriam Laugesen, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
> Department of Health Policy and Management
> Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
>
> On Nov 28, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Adam Oliver wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a quick question. We’re keen to start a new section in /Health
>> Economics, Policy and Law/ that revisits and reviews some of the
>> classic texts in health policy (economics, political science or
>> law-related) from the past. Books we have in mind so far are Bob
>> Evans’ ‘Strained Mercy’, one of Brian Abel-Smith’s books, Victor
>> Fuchs’ ‘Who Shall Live?’, and “The Gift Relationship” by Titmuss.
>>
>> We were wondering if any of you could suggest some classic texts that
>> you think we might usefully review in this series?
>>
>> Best,
>> Adam
>>
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