Making Health Policy

Networks in Research and Policy after 1945
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-420-1824-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 75, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 717 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Berridge, Virginia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

Virginia BERRIDGE: Making Health Policy: Networks in Research and Policy after 1945

PART 1: MAKING PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY

Luc BERLIVET: ‘Association or Causation?’ The Debate on the Scientific Status of Risk Factor Epidemiology, 1947–c.1965

Betsy THOM: Who Makes Alcohol Policy? Science and Policy Networks,1950–2000

Virginia BERRIDGE: Issue Network versus Producer Network? ASH, the Tobacco Products Research Trust and UK Smoking Policy

Mark W. BUFTON: British Expert Advice on Diet and Heart Disease c.1945–2000

Sarah MARS: Peer Pressure and Imposed Consensus: The Making of the 1984 Guidelines of Good Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Drug Misuse

PART II: EVIDENCE AND HEALTH SERVICES

Stuart ANDERSON: Evidence, Experts and Committees: The Shaping of Hospital Pharmacy Policy in Great Britain, 1948 to 1974

Jennifer STANTON: Renal Dialysis: Counting the Cost versus Counting the Need

Jennifer STANTON: Intensive Care: Measurement and Audit in an Expensive Growth Area of Medicine

Part III: The Media, Science and Policy

Kelly LOUGHLIN: 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 the ’60s

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Virginia Berridge is Professor of History at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is head of the Centre for History in Public Health, and headed the Wellcome Trust-funded ‘Science speaks to policy’ programme of research of which this book is an outgrowth. Her publications are on recent public health; drug, alcohol and smoking policy; the history of HIV/AIDS; and the relationship between research and policy.