The Ghosts of Berlin or Health and Mental Health Care Policy

The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape

Author: Brian Ladd

In this compelling work, Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin. Ladd surveys the urban landscape, excavating its ruins, contemplating its buildings and memorials, and carefully deconstructing the public debates and political controversies emerging from its past.

"Written in a clear and elegant style, The Ghosts of Berlin is not just another colorless architectural history of the German capital. . . . Mr. Ladd's book is a superb guide to this process of urban self-definition, both past and present."—Katharina Thote, Wall Street Journal

"If a book can have the power to change a public debate, then The Ghosts of Berlin is such a book. Among the many new books about Berlin that I have read, Brian Ladd's is certainly the most impressive. . . . Ladd's approach also owes its success to the fact that he is a good storyteller. His history of Berlin's architectural successes and failures reads entertainingly like a detective novel."—Peter Schneider, New Republic

"[Ladd's] well-written and well-illustrated book amounts to a brief history of the city as well as a guide to its landscape."—Anthony Grafton, New York Review of Books 

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Health and Mental Health Care Policy: A Social Work Perspective

Author: Cynthia Moniz

Overview:

 

This text fills a void in social work literature by offering a comprehensive, in-depth overview of health and mental health care policy.

 

The second edition of Health and Mental Health Care Policy provides a comprehensive overview of health and mental health care policy in the U.S. and presents a biopsychosocial perspective for examining health care, mental health and health care policy. It examines the impact of poverty, inequality, and inadequate access to health care on disadvantaged and at-risk populations and considers implications for policy and practice. In the past four years, the problem of access to health insurance has actually worsened, policymakers have done little to address gaps in coverage and escalating health care costs, and low-income individuals and families, people of color, children, women, and older adults continue to experience significant disparities in health.

 

New to this edition:

• Includes new information about health care reform efforts during the Bush years and concerns about bioterrorism in the wake of 9/11 and the spread of infectious disease.
•  Examines U.S. health care costs in international perspective and the quality of health care in the U.S.
• Provides new information on research and public health efforts to understandand  reduce disparities in health outcomes in infant mortality, cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and infectious disease.  Each of the sections on African Americans, Latina/os, First Nations, Asian Americans, women, children, and older adults has been thoroughly updated. 

 

    

What reviewers are saying:

 

“The primary strengths of this book include:  it's quite well-written and very readable; it provides a concise overview of health care in this country, as well as comparative international models; it provides important content on health disparities, as well as the implications for social work practice; it provides an overview of the biopsychosocial approach to health care.”

--Mark Holter, University of Michigan

 

“I think the major strength of this book is that it gives an outstanding, comprehensive perspective on the historical antecedents of health care and health care policy in the United States as it relates to the profession of social work.  An additional strength is the inclusion of chapters devoted to disparities in health and access to health care.  Finally, the text has an exceptional conclusion that allows students to to think critically about issues of health care for the future.”

--Makeba Thomas,  Bowie State University

 

 

Allyn & Bacon’s Themes of the Times for Health Care and Mental Health makes a great companion to this text (at no extra charge when valuepacked with this book).  It includes 43 recent articles from the New York Times and allowsfor lively discussion of issues and controversies in the field of Health Care and Mental Health.

 

 

 

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Table of Contents:

1	Models of health and health policy	3
2	The failure to enact national health insurance : 1865-1946	17
3	The emergence of employment-based insurance and managed care : 1943 to the present	35
4	Access to care	73
5	The growth and development of managed care	105
6	Medicare and Medicaid	133
7	Disparities in health : people of color	161
8	Disparities in health : gender and age-based differences	193
9	Looking beyond health care	227