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Alan

On Dec 8 2009, Professor Ron Akehurst wrote:

> 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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