Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The ADAMHA Reorganization Act of 1991 and Related Matters
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The ADAMHA Reorganization Act of 1991 and Related Matters
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Legislative Calendar, One Hundred Second Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Biomedicalization of Alcohol Studies
Author: Lorraine MidanikPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351327828
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Biomedicalization is seen as the natural outgrowth of continued scientific progress--a movement towards improving the quality and quantity of life through scientific inquiries using biomedical perspectives and methods. This approach carries with it the assumption that with "proper" risk assessment, detection, and treatment, our lives can be lengthened, improved, and indeed more fulfilling. Yet critics question biomedicalization's ability to deliver. There is concern about how biomedicalization can change our traditional concepts of health as we discover more conditions for which we are at risk, and health maintenance is seen as the responsibility of the individual. The purpose of the book is to describe, assess, and critique biomedicalization and its influence as a larger social trend on the health field and specifically in the area of alcohol research, policy, and programs. Chapter 1 gives a broad overview of biomedicalization. Chapter 2 lays the groundwork for a historical understanding of how medicalization and biomeidcalization have developed and are expressed in diverse fields such as aging, psychiatry/mental health, and women's health. Chapter 3 focuses in-depth on alcoholism and assesses the development and assumptions underlying the two movements that have greatly influenced the substance abuse field: the medicalization of deviance and the growth of the disease model of alcoholism. Chapter 4 discusses the origins and development of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) from its inception in 1970. Chapter 5 illustrates the growing biomedicalization that has occurred in the alcohol field prior to NIAAA's movement to the National Institute of Health (NIH). Chapter 6 assesses how Sweden has handled alcohol problems and currently funds alcohol research. Chapter 7 concludes with a rationale for an expanded discourse between social scientists and biomedical researchers working on social problems, particularly alcohol issues. This volume will stimulate discussion of the processes by which social problems, and specifically alcohol issues, are framed, managed, and studied. It will hold particular interest for researchers and students in the areas of alcohol studies, social science, and social welfare. Lorraine Midanik is a professor in the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.
CIS Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
CIS Index to Publications of the United States Congress
Author: Congressional Information ServicePublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Science and Technology Advice for Congress
Author: M. Granger MorganPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136526765
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The elimination of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) in 1995 came during a storm of budget cutting and partisan conflict. Operationally, it left Congress without an institutional arrangement to bring expert scientific and technological advice into the process of legislative decisionmaking. This deficiency has become increasingly critical, as more and more of the decisions faced by Congress and society require judgments based on highly specialized technical information. Offering perspectives from scholars and scientists with diverse academic backgrounds and extensive experience within the policy process, Science and Technology Advice for Congress breaks from the politics of the OTA and its contentious aftermath. Granger Morgan and Jon Peha begin with an overview of the use of technical information in framing policy issues, crafting legislation, and the overall process of governing. They note how, as nonexperts, legislators must make decisions in the face of scientific uncertainty and competing scientific claims from stakeholders. The contributors continue with a discussion of why OTA was created. They draw lessons from OTA's demise, and compare the use of science and technological information in Europe with the United States. The second part of the book responds to requests from congressional leaders for practical solutions. Among the options discussed are expanded functions within existing agencies such as the General Accounting or Congressional Budget Offices; an independent, NGO- administrated analysis group; and a dedicated successor to OTA within Congress. The models emphasize flexibility--and the need to make political feasibility a core component of design.
Congressional Hearings Calendar
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
MEDOC
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Index of U.S. government literature on health statistics and research information and health care delivery and education material for the lay public.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description