Medicine Its Marketplace And The American Dream

Author : Taylor Dickinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1401088465

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Medicine, Its Marketplace, and the American Dream by Taylor Dickinson Pdf

The current medical system in the United States is a chaotic blend of traditional medical practice, political ideologies and business solutions. Most approaches to health-care reform seek a solution that does not disturb these basic characteristics. But rational analysis reveals economic inconsistencies that cripple the system. Juxtaposed to this is the extraordinary promise of modern medical science. The objective in health-care reform, therefore, ought not to be to control its cost, but to assure the timely incorporation of these advances into the everyday practice of medicine. Ultimately, medicine's value to society lies in the healthier, longer lives lived by its people. To be meaningful, reform must achieve universal care based upon an equality that serves the rights of all. This is the marketplace described in this book.

Author : Randol Contreras
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520273375

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The Stickup Kids by Randol Contreras Pdf

Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.

Author : Patricia A. Adler,Peter Adler,Patrick K. O'Brien
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470670279

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Drugs and the American Dream by Patricia A. Adler,Peter Adler,Patrick K. O'Brien Pdf

Drugs and the American Dream presents an up-to-date anthology of chiefly contemporary readings that explore the myriad sociological correlates of licit and illicit drug use in the United States. Unique approach to the topic that offers an organizing theme of sociological concepts-age, social class, ethnicity, gender, as well as societal response to drug use including drug education, treatment, and policy. The book is interdisciplinary in terms of approach, making it useful in a variety of contexts. Includes a wide array of ethnographic articles that place reader directly into the perspectives of drug users through their own voices Brief framing introductions to each article provide "interconnective tissue," guiding the student to the heart of what's important in the piece that follows. Offers a balanced approach to various substances-tobacco, alcohol, prescription drugs, and illegal drugs. Provides students with a realistic perspective on the extent of substance use in American society as well as a critical appreciation of the real versus imagined harms associated with use of various substances.

Author : Robert C. Hauhart,Mitja Sardoč
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000781564

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The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream by Robert C. Hauhart,Mitja Sardoč Pdf

The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2 explores the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the American Dream in both theory and reality in the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together leading scholars from a range of fields to further develop the themes and issues explored in the first volume. The concept of the American Dream, first expounded by James Truslow Adams in The Epic of America in 1931, is at once both ubiquitous and difficult to define. The term perfectly captures the hopes of freedom, opportunity and upward social mobility invested in the nation. However, the American Dream appears increasingly illusory in the face of widening inequality and apparent lack of opportunity, particularly for the poor and ethnic, or otherwise marginalized, minorities in the United States. As such, an understanding of the American Dream through both theoretical analyses and empirical studies, whether qualitative or quantitative, is crucial to understanding contemporary America. Like the first volume of The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream, this collection will be of great interest to students and researchers in a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Carl Elliott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780393346664

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Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Carl Elliott Pdf

"Elliott's absorbing account will make readers think again about the ways that science shapes our personal identities."—American Scientist Americans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of "enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an occasional congressional hearing, and calls for self-reliance. In a brilliant diagnosis of our reactions to self-improvement technologies, Carl Elliott asks questions that illuminate deep currents in the American character: Why do we feel uneasy about these drugs, procedures, and therapies even while we embrace them? Where do we draw the line between self and society? Why do we seek self-realization in ways so heavily influenced by cultural conformity?

Author : Kant Patel,Mark E Rushefsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429674419

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Healthcare Politics and Policy in America by Kant Patel,Mark E Rushefsky Pdf

Health policy in the United States has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and ideological environment, with important roles played by public and private actors, as well as institutional and individual entities, in designing the contemporary American healthcare system. Now in a fully updated fifth edition, this book gives expanded attention to pressing issues for our policymakers, including the aging American population, physician shortages, gene therapy, specialty drugs, and the opioid crisis. A new chapter has been added on the Trump administration's failed attempts at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act and subsequent attempts at undermining it via executive orders. Authors Kant Patel and Mark Rushefsky address the key problems of healthcare cost, access, and quality through analyses of Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Health Administration, and other programs, and the ethical and cost implications of advances in healthcare technology. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and a comprehensive reference list. This textbook will be required reading for courses on health and healthcare policy, as well as all those interested in the ways in which American healthcare has evolved over time.

Author : Maxine Eichner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190055486

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The Free-Market Family by Maxine Eichner Pdf

US families have been pushed to the wall. At the bottom of the economic ladder, poor and working-class adults aren't forming stable relationships and can't give their kids the start they need because of low wages and uncertain job prospects. Toward the top, professional parents' lives have become a grinding slog of long hours of paid work. Meanwhile their kids are overstressed by pressure to succeed and get into good colleges. In this provocative book, Maxine Eichner argues that these very different struggles might seem unconnected, but they share the same root cause: the increasingly large toll that economic inequality and insecurity are taking on families. It's government rather than families that's to blame, Eichner persuasively contends. Since the 1970s, politicians have sold families out to the wrongheaded notion that the free market alone best supports them. In five decades of "free-market family policy," they've scrapped government programs and gutted market regulations that had helped families thrive. The consequence is the steady drumbeat of bad news we hear about our country today: the opioid epidemic, skyrocketing suicide and mental illness rates, "deaths of despair," and mediocre student achievement scores. Meanwhile, politicians just keep telling families to work a little harder. The Free-Market Family documents US families' impossible plight, showing how much worse they fare than families in other countries. It then demonstrates how politicians' free-market illusions steered our nation wildly off course. Finally, it shows how, using commonsense measures, we can restructure the economy to work for families, rather than the reverse. Doing so would invest in our children's futures, increase our wellbeing, reknit our social fabric, and allow our country to reclaim the American Dream.

Author : J. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137482242

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Framing Drug Use by J. Fitzgerald Pdf

This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture, phenomenology and contemporary theories of affect, illuminates the connections between drugs, bodies, space, economy and crime.

Author : Paul A. Cantor
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813177328

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Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream by Paul A. Cantor Pdf

The many con men, gangsters, and drug lords portrayed in popular culture are examples of the dark side of the American dream. Viewers are fascinated by these twisted versions of heroic American archetypes, like the self-made man and the entrepreneur. Applying the critical skills he developed as a Shakespeare scholar, Paul A. Cantor finds new depth in familiar landmarks of popular culture. He invokes Shakespearean models to show that the concept of the tragic hero can help us understand why we are both repelled by and drawn to figures such as Vito and Michael Corleone or Walter White. Beginning with Huckleberry Finn and ending with The Walking Dead, Cantor also uncovers the link between the American dream and frontier life. In imaginative variants of a Wild West setting, popular culture has served up disturbing—and yet strangely compelling—images of what happens when people move beyond the borders of law and order. Cantor demonstrates that, at its best, popular culture raises thoughtful questions about the validity and viability of the American dream, thus deepening our understanding of America itself.

Author : Chad Brand,Tom Pratt
Publisher : Kregel Academic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825488559

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Awaiting the City by Chad Brand,Tom Pratt Pdf

People of faith have always been on search for the homeland, first promised to Abraham in light of the Babylonian civilization he left. That future hope was reinterpreted by Jesus and taken up by St. Augustine in The City of God, reinterpreted again by John Calvin in Geneva, and given a final form by the Puritan pilgrims who came to America to establish the City upon a Hill. Fundamental to this quest for a just, holy civilization has been the progress of humankind on the earth in light of the mandate to fill and rule over it. Authors Chad Brand and Tom Pratt discuss that progress as they answer the vital questions for praxis: How should biblically oriented Christians think of and work toward God's justice along the way? How can we steer between a utopian vision and a limited vision to a new rational compassion?

Author : Ernst G. Frankel
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781491832288

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Survival and Revival of the American Dream by Ernst G. Frankel Pdf

This book is about the cristicism of the American economic strategy.

Author : David Herzberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226731919

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White Market Drugs by David Herzberg Pdf

The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fueled them, from Bayer’s Heroin to Purdue’s OxyContin and all the drugs in between: barbiturate “goof balls,” amphetamine “thrill pills,” the “love drug” Quaalude, and more. As Herzberg argues, the vast majority of American experiences with drugs and addiction have taken place within what he calls “white markets,” where legal drugs called medicines are sold to a largely white clientele. These markets are widely acknowledged but no one has explained how they became so central to the medical system in a nation famous for its “drug wars”—until now. Drawing from federal, state, industry, and medical archives alongside a wealth of published sources, Herzberg re-connects America’s divided drug history, telling the whole story for the first time. He reveals that the driving question for policymakers has never been how to prohibit the use of addictive drugs, but how to ensure their availability in medical contexts, where profitability often outweighs public safety. Access to white markets was thus a double-edged sword for socially privileged consumers, even as communities of color faced exclusion and punitive drug prohibition. To counter this no-win setup, Herzberg advocates for a consumer protection approach that robustly regulates all drug markets to minimize risks while maintaining safe, reliable access (and treatment) for people with addiction. Accomplishing this requires rethinking a drug/medicine divide born a century ago that, unlike most policies of that racially segregated era, has somehow survived relatively unscathed into the twenty-first century. By showing how the twenty-first-century opioid crisis is only the most recent in a long history of similar crises of addiction to pharmaceuticals, Herzberg forces us to rethink our most basic ideas about drug policy and addiction itself—ideas that have been failing us catastrophically for over a century.

Author : H. Berghoff,P. Scranton,U. Spiekermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137071286

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The Rise of Marketing and Market Research by H. Berghoff,P. Scranton,U. Spiekermann Pdf

This volume serves up a combination of broad questions, theoretical approaches, and manifold case studies to explore how people have sought to understand markets and thereby reduce risk, whether they have approached this challenge with a practical view based on their own business acumen or used the tools of scholarship.

Author : Melina Sherman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197698228

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How We Hurt by Melina Sherman Pdf

How We Hurt dives into the institutional and cultural dimensions of the ongoing opioid epidemic. In a detailed analysis of pain management, opioid regulation, pharmaceutical branding, self-help, and public discourses on opioid addiction, Melina Sherman argues that the linchpin underlying the opioid epidemic's evolution in North America is the problem of pain. By unpacking the politics of pain in different domains, How We Hurt shows how the crisis emerged and shifted, and why it looks the way it does today. The book's chapters begin by tracing the trajectory of opioids in pain management, where decisions regarding the measurement of pain led to relief becoming wedded to opioids in medicine. The following chapters examine the problem of pain in opioid regulation, pharmaceutical branding, and the self-help industry. In these areas, a disastrous combination of strategic ignorance and deep-seated ties between public health entities and pharmaceutical companies drove the influx of opioids onto the market and into our medicine cabinets. The book's penultimate chapter applies the analysis of pain to the problem of opioid addiction in popular discourse and shows how the opioid crisis has evolved alongside new conceptions of addiction and people who use opioids that condition whose pain is seen as legitimate and whose is not. Finally, the book concludes by considering the implications of its findings for the development of drug policy and future research on public health disasters, insisting on an interdisciplinary and multi-faceted approach to the study of pain and its place American culture.

Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Crime prevention
ISBN : PURD:32754075491237

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Stewards of the American Dream by United States. Department of Justice Pdf