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

• Superior document: Wellcome series in the history of medicine,
• TeilnehmendeR: Berridge, Virginia,
• 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.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Preface /; Abbreviations /; Making Health Policy: Networks in Research and Policy after 1945 /; ‘Association or Causation?’ The Debate on the Scientific Status of Risk Factor Epidemiology, 1947–c.1965 /; Who Makes Alcohol Policy? Science and Policy Networks 1950–2000 /; Issue Network versus Producer Network? ASH, the Tobacco Products Research Trust and UK Smoking Policy /; British Expert Advice on Diet and Heart Disease c.1945-2000 /; Peer Pressure and Imposed Consensus: The Making of the 1984 Guidelines of Good Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Drug Misuse /; Evidence, Experts and Committees: The Shaping of Hospital Pharmacy Policy in Great Britain 1948 to 1974 /; Renal Dialysis: Counting the Cost versus Counting the Need /; Intensive Care: Measurement and Audit in an Expensive Growth Area of Medicine /; Publicity as Policy: The Changing Role of Press and Public Relations at the BMA, 1940s–80s /; Networks of Mass Communication: Reporting Science, Health and Medicine in the 1950s and ’60s /; Contributors /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 900433310X
• ISSN: 0045-7183; 0045-7183
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 since 1945. Surprisingly, many of the networks influencing health policy are not political ones central to public discussion. Instead, scientific networks have shaped policies on public health, based upon findings of chronic disease epidemiology. For policies on illicit drugs, the clinical experience of a small group of psychiatrists held sway. And ironically in an ever cost-conscious world, high-technology areas – such as renal dialysis – saw economic considerations diminish as time passed. Health pressure groups entered the equation, and the last half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of the media as the defining agency in the science/policy relationship. Making Health Policy is the first historical study to explore the unspoken links between science and recent health policy.