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Unhealthy politics :

1400888654

9781400888658

0691158819

9780691158815

Unhealthy politics :

[Book]

the battle over evidence-based medicine /

Eric M. Patashnik, Alan S. Gerber, Conor M. Dowling.

Princeton, New Jersey :

Princeton University Press,

[2017]

©2017

1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover ; UNHEALTHY POLITICS ; Title ; Copyright ; CONTENTS ; List of Figures and Tables ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1 The Medical Guesswork Problem ; 2 Sham Surgery: A Case Study of the Use of Medical Evidence.

3 Doctor Knows Best: The Influence of Physician Leadership on Public Opinion 4 The Limits of Professional Self- Regulation: Findings from a National Physician Survey ; 5 Zero-Credit Politics: The Government's Sluggish Effort to Promote Evidence- Based Medicine, 1970s- 2008.

6 Electoral Competition, Polarization, and the Breakdown of Elite- Led Social Learning Conclusion: Postenactment Coalition Building (and Other Strategies for Sustaining Reform in a Polarized Age) ; Appendixes ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.

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How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicineThe U.S. medical system is touted as the most advanced in the world, yet many common treatments are not based on sound science. Treatments can go into widespread use before they are rigorously evaluated, and every year patients are harmed because they receive too many procedures--and too few treatments that really work. Unhealthy Politics sheds new light on why the government's response to this troubling situation has been so inadequate, and why efforts to improve the evidence base of U.S. medicine continue to cause so much political controversy and public trepidation. This critically important book draws on public opinion surveys, physician surveys, case studies, and political science models to explain how political incentives, polarization, and the misuse of professional authority have undermined efforts to tackle the medical evidence problem and curb wasteful spending. It paints a portrait of a medical industry with vast influence over which procedures and treatments get adopted, and a public burdened by the rising costs of health care yet fearful of going against "doctor's orders." The book shows how the government's efforts to promote evidence-based medicine have become mired in partisan debates. It also proposes sensible solutions that can lead to better, more efficient health care for all of us. Unhealthy Politics offers vital insights not only into health policy but also into the limits of science, expertise, and professionalism as political foundations for pragmatic problem solving in American democracy.

JSTOR

OverDrive, Inc.

22573/ctvc66d05

61B98A62-51DD-4477-9E6D-DA7705A6FE9E

Unhealthy politics.

Evidence-based medicine-- Political aspects-- United States.

Medical policy-- United States.

Evidence-Based Medicine.

Health Policy.

MEDICAL-- Clinical Medicine.

Medical policy.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.

United States.

United States.

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Patashnik, Eric M.

Dowling, Conor M.

Gerber, Alan S.

20200822122836.0

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