Book Reviews – Medical Politics
Reviews by Del Meyer, MD
Shorter versions have appeared in Sacramento Medicine, Medical Sentinel, California Physician, St. Croix Review.
- Almost Persuaded, American Physicians and Compulsory Health Insurance, 1912-1920 by Ronald L. Numbers, 1978.
- America Alone – The End of the World as we Know it by Mark Steyn, 2006.
- Bioterrorism: How You Can Survive by Russell L Blaylock, MD, 2001.
- Body Bazaar – The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age by Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin, 2001.
- Code Blue: Health Care in Crisis by Edward R. Annis, 1993.
- Compulsory Health Insurance, the Continuing American Debate by Ronald L. Numbers, Editor, 1982.
- Coolidge – An American Enigma by Robert Sobel, 1998.
- A Family of Doctors by David Hellerstein, 1994.
- For Your Own Good – The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health by Jacob Sullum, 1998.
- Framing Disease; Illness, Society and History – A Bibliography of Health Care Insurance by Charles E. Rosenberg and Janet Golden, Editors, 1992.
- God, Guns and Rock ‘n’ Roll by Ted Nugent, 2000.
- Health Care Politics, Policy, Distributive Justice: The Ironic Triumph by Robert P. Rhodes, 1992.
- Health Policies – Health Politics, The British and American Experience 1911-1965 by Daniel L. Fox, 1986.
- Lives at Risk by John C Goodman, Gerald R Musgrave & Devon Herrick, 2004 (prepublication review).
- The Measure of Our Days – New Beginnings at Life’s End by Jerome Groopman, MD, 1997.
- Medical Warrier – Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine by Miguel A Faria, Jr, MD, 1997.
- Medicine at the Crossroads – The Crisis in Health Care by Melvin Konner, M.D., Ph.D, 1993.
- Medicine, Money and Morals: Physicians’ Conflicts of Interest by Marc A. Rodwin, 1993.
- No More Wacos – What’s Wrong With Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It by David B. Kopel and Paul H. Blackman, 1997.
- The No Spin Zone – Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America by Bill O’Reilly, 2001.
- PC, MD – How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine by Sally Satel, MD, 2000.
- Politicized Medicine by Hans F. Sennholz, Editor, 1993.
- The Politics of Bad Faith – The Radical Assault on America’s Future by David Horowitz, 2000.
- Public Education: An Autopsy by Myron Lieberman, 1993.
- Reducing Health Care Fraud – An Assessment of the Impact of the False Claims Act prepared by Jack A Meyer, Ph D, President & Stephanie E Anthony, JD, MPH, 2001.
- Saving Childhood – Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence by Michael Medved and Diane Medved, PhD, 1998.
- Shake Down by Ezra Levant, 2009
- State of Fear by Michael Crichton, MD, 2004.
- Tainted Prosecution of Tainted Claims: The Law, Economics, and Ethics of Fighting Medical Fraud Under the Civil False Claims Act by Dayna Bowen Matthew, Summer 2001.
- The Tyranny of Good Intentions – How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice by Paul Craig Roberts & Lawrence M Stratton, 2000.
- Who Owns Your Body?: Doctors and Patients Behind Bars by Madeleine Pelner Cosman, PhD, Esq., 2005.
- Who Really Cares – America’s Charity Divide – Who Gives, Who Doesn’t, and Why It Matters by Arthur C. Brooks, 2006.
- Why Government Doesn’t Work by Harry Browne, 1995.