This work will appeal to policy makers, advocates, and others with interest in health care policy and those interested more broadly in the policy-making process as a whole. Without assuming any previous background on the NHS, the book details the 70-year political history of Britain's National Health Service (NHS), looking at tensions between central government and delivery agencies and tensions between public accountability and professional autonomy. The author claims that the NHS can be seen as a laboratory for a range of social, institutional, and organizational experiments, with implications for other areas of policy and other countries. This seventh edition contains three new chapters on events and trends since 2000 and challenges for the future. Distributed in the US by Martin P. Hill Consulting. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

'Two towering figures in the field of health care policy analysis, Theodore R. Marmor and Rudolf Klein, reflect on a lifetime of thought in this wide-ranging collection of essays published in the wake of President Obama's health care reform. Presented asa kind of dialogue between the two, the book offers their recent writings on the future of Medicare; universal health insurance; conflicts of interest among physicians, regulators, and patients; and many other topics'--Provided by publisher.

L'architettura di Hecker sembra aver rinunciato alla dialettica occidentale per esprimere contenuti di base (la tettonica e, talvolta, il carattere e la logica dei materiali). Il risultato č un'esperienza architettonica radicale e unica, che genera capolavori difficilmente omologabili.