Editor's Note

Mark Schlesinger

Webs, Levers, and Other Metaphors for Influence over Policy Change
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31(5): 883-886 (2006); DOI:10.1215/03616878-2006-011 [PDF] [References]  

Articles

Michael T. Heaney

Brokering Health Policy: Coalitions, Parties, and Interest Group Influence
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31(5): 887-944 (2006); DOI:10.1215/03616878-2006-012 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Laura A. Schmidt, James Wiley, Daniel Dohan, Denise Zabkiewicz, Laurie M. Jacobs, Stuart Henderson, and Matthew Zivot

Changing Patterns of Addiction and Public Aid Receipt: Tracking the Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31(5): 945-980 (2006); DOI:10.1215/03616878-2006-013 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Hans Maarse

The Privatization of Health Care in Europe: An Eight-Country Analysis
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31(5): 981-1014 (2006); DOI:10.1215/03616878-2006-014 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Books

   Review Essay

Daniel Carpenter

Forcing Pharmaceutical History into Boxes; Pill Politics: Drugs and the FDA; Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany; The Politics of the International Pricing of Prescription Drugs; Defining Drugs: How Government Became the Arbiter of Pharmaceutical Fact
Stephen J. Ceccoli. Pill Politics: Drugs and the FDA. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004. 211 pp. $49.95 cloth.
Arthur Daemmrich. Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 203 pp. $34.95 cloth.
Christopher Scott Harrison. The Politics of the International Pricing of Prescription Drugs. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. 224 pp. $65.95 cloth.
Richard Henry Parrish II. Defining Drugs: How Government Became the Arbiter of Pharmaceutical Fact. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 2003. 163 pp. $29.95 cloth.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31(5): 1015-1019 (2006); DOI:10.1215/03616878-2006-015 [PDF]  

   Review

Nicole F. Bernier

Territorial Politics and Health Policy—U.K. Policy in Comparative Perspective
Scott L. Greer. Territorial Politics and Health Policy—U.K. Policy in Comparative Perspective. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004. 275 pp. $74.95 cloth.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31(5): 1020-1024 (2006); DOI:10.1215/03616878-2006-016 [PDF]  

Ming Wen

Health and Inequality: Geographical Perspectives
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31(5): 1024-1029 (2006); DOI:10.1215/03616878-2006-017 [PDF] [References]  

Books Received

Books Received
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31(5): 1031-1034 (2006); DOI:10.1215/03616878-31-5-1031 [PDF]  

Contributors

Contributors
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31(5): 1035-1037 (2006); DOI:10.1215/03616878-31-5-1035 [PDF]  

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