Making health policy : : networks in research and policy after 1945 / / Edited by Virginia Berridge.

What shapes health policy? Current thinking dictates that scientific evidence should be the basis for policy making in healthcare, but is this a new approach, and how has it developed? Making Health Policy shows how networks in science and the media have established a dialogue for policy making sinc...

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Superior document:Wellcome series in the history of medicine,
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Clio Medica 75.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 336 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Virginia Berridge
  • Preface / Virginia Berridge
  • Abbreviations / Virginia Berridge
  • Making Health Policy: Networks in Research and Policy after 1945 / Virginia Berridge
  • ‘Association or Causation?’ The Debate on the Scientific Status of Risk Factor Epidemiology, 1947–c.1965 / Luc Berlivet
  • Who Makes Alcohol Policy? Science and Policy Networks 1950–2000 / Betsy Thom
  • Issue Network versus Producer Network? ASH, the Tobacco Products Research Trust and UK Smoking Policy / Virginia Berridge
  • British Expert Advice on Diet and Heart Disease c.1945-2000 / Mark W. Bufton
  • Peer Pressure and Imposed Consensus: The Making of the 1984 Guidelines of Good Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Drug Misuse / Sarah Mars
  • Evidence, Experts and Committees: The Shaping of Hospital Pharmacy Policy in Great Britain 1948 to 1974 / Stuart Anderson
  • Renal Dialysis: Counting the Cost versus Counting the Need / Jennifer Stanton
  • Intensive Care: Measurement and Audit in an Expensive Growth Area of Medicine / Jennifer Stanton
  • Publicity as Policy: The Changing Role of Press and Public Relations at the BMA, 1940s–80s / Kelly Loughlin
  • Networks of Mass Communication: Reporting Science, Health and Medicine in the 1950s and ’60s / Kelly Loughlin
  • Contributors / Virginia Berridge
  • Index / Virginia Berridge.