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Integrating ecology with the natural and social sciences, F. Stuart Chapin III creates a framework from which to apply theory to inform scientific practice. Providing a pragmatic strategy for tangibly saving the environment, this is not a text about what should be done; it is a work about what has been done and what can be done.

3 Sclerotic Institution: The Declining Power of Organized Physicians and the AMACrafting a National Political Voice; Politics: Style and Methods; Organization in Disarray; Grassroots Discontent; The AMA and the Health Insurance Market; Conclusion; 4 Organized for Profit: The Hidden Influence of Insurance Companies and the HIAA; Life Insurers and Political Expediency: The Roots of Health Insurance; Industry Division and Birth of the HIAA; The HIAA and Federal Politics: The Hidden Strategy; The HIAA Organizes the Market; The Cost Dilemma; Conclusion.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sri Lanka: Setting the Ethnographic Context -- 3. Socializing Desire: Demanding Toddlers and Self-Restrained Children -- 4. Shaping Attachments: Learning Hierarchy at Home -- 5. Making Sense of Envy: Desires and Relationships in Conflict -- 6. Engaging with Hierarchy outside the Home: Education and Efforts at Change -- 7. Culturing People -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

Part 1 The Leadership Imperative -- The Buisness Case for Ethics Management -- Part 2 Case Studies and Moral Challenges -- Conflicting Moral Demands: Qual Plus Hmo -- Gender Discriminarion: Rolling Meadows Community Hospital -- Physician Impairment: University Hospital -- Workforce Reduction: Hillside County Medical Center -- Nurse Shortage: Metropolitan Community Hospital -- Information Technology Setback: Heartland Healthcare System -- Failed Hospital Merger: Richland River Valley Healthcare System -- When Patient Demands and Hospital Policies Collide: Hurley Medical Center