Can't remember the title but Scotton and Deeble on the Australian health system
provided the design for that country's health service in the 1960s and was
probably the most influential piece of work by health economists ever.Mike
Cooper's book was echoed in a speech David Owen gave as Minister of health and
reproduced in the Lancet, May 8 1976. All this makes me feel old!
Ron Akehurst
Quoting Edwin Griggs <[log in to unmask]>:
> What about the following:
>
> Michael Cooper's *Rationing Health Care* (Croom Helm 1975). The first book
> to open up the issue of rationing.
>
> Richard Titmuss *Essays on the Welfare State* (Allen & Unwin 1958). Although
> mainly a collection of essays written at various times in the 1950s about
> various aspects of social policy, it contain four substantial essays on
> health policy and the NHS and at over a hundred pages amounts to Titmuss's
> lengthiest and most considered statement about the NHS. These are remarkably
> percipient about the problems of health policy in general and the NHS in
> particular and to that extent have not dated (and will probably never date,
> most health problems and issues being perennial and insoluble).
>
> I'd also like to nominate Rudolf Klein's *Politics of the NHS* as one of the
> few (the only?) really dispassionate and cant-free accounts of the NHS but
> this falls foul of the thirty year rule and of course is still around in its
> 5th edition.
>
> Edwin Griggs
>
> 2009/11/30 Charles Normand <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Adam
> >
> >
> >
> > I am not sure that your time frame is right – I would suggest some newer
> > classics such as Free for All (Newhouse) since it has so much evidence etc
> > that was original and innovative. I would also suggest Jones Lee’s Value
> of
> > Life and possibly for a broader perspective Scitowsky’s Joyless Economy.
> I
> > wonder if McKeown and Cochrane might sneak under the wire as being in your
> > categories?
> >
> > C
> >
> >
> >
> > Charles Normand
> > Edward Kennedy Professor of Health Policy & Management
> > University of Dublin
> > Trinity College
> > 3-4 Foster Place
> > Dublin 2
> > +353 1 896 3075
> >
> > *From:* Anglo-American Health Policy Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > *On Behalf Of *Adam Oliver
> > *Sent:* 28 November 2009 23:31
> >
> > *To:* [log in to unmask]
> > *Subject:* Re: Question regarding Health Economics, Policy and Law
> >
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for these suggestions. But we are planning to look at books that
> are
> > at least 30-40 years old.
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* Anglo-American Health Policy Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > *On Behalf Of *David Wilsford
> > *Sent:* 28 November 2009 23:25
> >
> > *To:* [log in to unmask]
> > *Subject:* Re: Question regarding Health Economics, Policy and Law
> >
> >
> >
> > Terrific idea.
> > My candidates:
> >
> > • Rosemary Stevens, American Medicine and the Public Interest
> > • Carolyn Tuohy, Accidental Logics.
> >
> > DW
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/28/09 1:24 PM, "Oliver,AJ" <[log in to unmask]> 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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> >
> > --
> > David Wilsford Ph D
> > Professor of Political Science, George Mason University (Fairfax Virginia
> > USA) and
> > Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics (UK)
> >
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