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Advocates universal & comprehensive health insurance (1) to cover the 16% of Americans who now have no public or private coverage; (2) to help hospitals pressured to end the cross-subsidies that previously enabled them to care for the uninsured; (3) to protect the jobs &, thus, the communities of health care workers; & (4) to improve the care received by the currently underinsured. It is allowed, however, that the US nonparliamentary political system all but precludes the enactment of the sort of ambitious, cohesive plan needed to repair the health care system. Thus, even though an incremental approach tends to politically weaken those it does not directly help, several smaller steps for improving the organization & financing of care are suggested: (A) slowing the shift of not-for-profit providers to the for-profit sector, possibly through the power of the states' attorneys general; (B) regulating & demanding greater accountability from health maintenance organizations; & (C) strengthening & improving Medicare. E. Blackwell

A summary of data on twin problems in the health field: (1) the increasing number of Americans without health insurance; & (2) the increasing costs of health care. It is argued that these problems can be addressed by a national health insurance program that makes comprehensive benefits universally available & that operates within prescribed budgets. The characteristics of such a program are discussed. AA

Examines reasons for the growth of health maintenance organizations and managed care, the problems engendered, and why they continue despite dissatisfaction among key participants.

Introduction /Miriam Boeri and Rashi K. Shukla --Going native with evil /Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard --Lost in the park : learning to navigate the upredictability of fieldwork /Elizabeth Bonomo and Scott Jacques --Unearthing aggressive advocacy : challenges and strategies in social service ethnography /Curtis Smith and Leon Anderson --Going into the gray : conducting fieldwork on corporate misconduct /Eugne Soltes --Hide-and-seek : challenges in the ethnography of street drug users /Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page --Into the epistemic void : using rapid assessment to investigate the opioid crisis /Jason N. Fessel, Sarah G. Mars, Philippe Bourgois, and Daniel Ciccarone --Conducting international reflexive ethnography : theoretical and methodological struggles /Avelardo Valdez, Alice Cepeda, and Charles Kaplan --Hidden : accessing narratives of parental drug dealing and misuse /Ana Lilia Campos-Manzo --Navigating stigma : researching opioid and injection drug use among young immigrants from the former Soviet Union in New York City /Honoria Guarino and Anastasia Teper --Dangerous liaisons : reflections on a serial ethnography /Robert Gay --The emotional labor of fieldwork with people who use methamphetamine /Heith Copes --Ethnography of injustice : death at a county jail /Joshua Price --Conclusion : looking back, moving forward /Rashi K. Shukla and Miriam Boeri.

"This book is a collection of autobiographical narratives by leading social scientists working across South Asia. It explores the linkages between their personal experiences and academic pursuits, and analyses how personal, political and professional choices shape knowledge production and effect social transformation. The narratives revisit long standing debates on objectivity, subjectivity, self and other, and attempt to collapse the binaries that have informed the social sciences till now. Highlighting the state of research and pedagogy in the social sciences in the region, the book questions the conventional understanding of the task of the social scientist, and in doing so, blurs the distinction between theory, research, pedagogy and activism. A unique and compelling contribution, this volume will be indispensable to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, history, creative writing, education, politics, biography studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers"--

In mehreren Beiträgen wird die Problematik der von US-Präsident Clinton eingeleiteten Reform des Gesundheitssystems der Vereinigten Staaten behandelt. Dabei wird u.a. auf die wirtschaftlichen Aspekte der Gesundheitsreform eingegangen, auf die Erfahrungen früherer Administrationen, auf die öffentliche Meinung im Hinblick auf die Gesundheitsreform sowie auf die aktuellen Realisierungschancen des Reformprogramms im US-Kongreß. (AuD-Hng)

Medieval Christian use of Hebrew and postbiblical Jewish texts -- Nicholas of Lyra, O.F.M.: mediating Hebrew traditions for a Christian audience -- The challenge of unbelief: knowing Christian truth through Jewish scripture -- Wrestling with Rashi: Nicholas of Lyra's quodlibetal questions and anti-Jewish polemic -- Christian ownership of Jewish text: Nicholas of Lyra as an alternative Jewish authority

Introduction : On Otherism and Othering / Diana Dimitrova -- The Religion of Coolitude / Rashi Rohatgi -- Religion and "Otherness" in a New World : The Radhasoami Tradition in Transnational Space / Diana Dimitrova -- "Othering" through Language : The Construction of Two Languages and Communal Identities in British India / Rahman Tariq -- The Idea of a Nation : H.R. Bacchan's Palimpsestian House of Wine / Anne Castaing -- The Politics of "Otherness" : The Hindi Plays of Urdu-Hindi Author Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996) / Diana Dimitrova -- Imagining the Powerful "Other" : Representations of Razia Sultan / Urvi Mukhopadhyay -- Queer Bollywood : Same-Sex Sexuality, Gender Transgression and "Otherness" in Indian Popular Cinema of the 1990s / Thomas Waugh -- Towards an Inclusive, Fluid Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Commercial Indian Cinema(s) / Sunny Singh

In 'Reading the Rabbis' Eva De Visscher examines the Hebrew scholarship of Englishman Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194). Chiefly known as the loyal secretary and hagiographer of Archbishop Thomas Becket and enemy of Henry II, he appears here as an outstanding Hebraist whose linguistic proficiency and engagement with Rabbinic sources, including contemporary teachers, were unique for a northern-European Christian of his time. Two commentaries on the Psalms by Herbert form the focus of scrutiny. In demonstrating influence from Jewish and Christian texts such as Rashi, Hebrew-French glossaries, Hebrew-Latin Psalters, and Victorine scholarship, De Visscher situates Herbert within the context of an increased interest in the revision of Jerome's Latin Bible and literal exegesis, and a heightened Christian awareness of Jewish "other-ness"