Health and Health Care

Shanti Residence Program: Bailey House

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

These three cases present different models for long-term, non-hospital housing for persons with AIDS. Taken together, they raise issues as to the appropriate magnitude and expense of care. The individual cases raise their own issues as well. New...

Shanti Residence Program

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

These three cases present different models for long-term, non-hospital housing for persons with AIDS. Taken together, they raise issues as to the appropriate magnitude and expense of care. The individual cases raise their own issues as well. New...

Treating Tuberculosis: Responding to an Epidemic

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

This "thinking-in-time" style case recalls the American response to the tuberculosis epidemic at the turn of the century. It provides a vehicle to look at the social and political forces promoting a variety of types of care--particularly the...

Pam Hyde and Ohio Mental Health: Shifting Control of Inpatient Care (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

When Pam Hyde was appointed director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health in 1983, she inherited a two-tiered state mental health system, consisting of 17 state hospitals and 53 community mental health boards. The state hospitals, which were...

HIV and DC: The AIDS Testing Issue

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In November 1985, District of Columbia Councilmember John Ray introduced a bill that would have imposed a five-year moratorium on all kinds of applicant AIDS-testing in the district by health, life, and disability insurers. Ray wrote the bill...

Matters of Life and Death: Defunding Organ Transplants in the State of Arizona

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case draws on controversy triggered by a decision to direct medical care funds for the poor to mothers and young children--rather than expensive, life-saving organ transplant operations. In the wake of the death of Diana Brown, a...

Battle on Brimmer Street: Mental Health Siting Dispute in the State of Maine (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

The protagonists of this decision-forcing case are a non-profit housing developer and a state agency, who are working cooperatively to establish a group home for mentally handicapped adults in a residential neighborhood of Brewer, Maine. To head...

Battle on Brimmer Street: Mental Health Siting Dispute in the State of Maine

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

The protagonists of this decision-forcing case are a non-profit housing developer and a state agency, who are working cooperatively to establish a group home for mentally handicapped adults in a residential neighborhood of Brewer, Maine. To head...

Pam Hyde and Ohio Mental Health: Shifting Control of Inpatient Care

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

When Pam Hyde was appointed director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health in 1983, she inherited a two-tiered state mental health system, consisting of 17 state hospitals and 53 community mental health boards. The state hospitals, which were...

Judge Tauro and Care of the Retarded in Massachusetts

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

On October 9, 1986, US District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro signed an order withdrawing five Massachusetts state schools for the mentally retarded from federal supervision. The court had been involved in the schools since 1972, when parents of...

AIDS and the Insurance Industry

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In December 1986, Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance Peter Hiam ordered life and health insurance companies operating in the state to stop testing insurance applicants' blood for antibodies to the AIDS virus. Hiam expressed concern that the...

Cancer and Environmental Hazards in Woburn, Massachusetts (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

During excavation for an industrial park, hazardous wastes, including known carcinogens, are discovered in Woburn, Massachusetts. At the same time, two town wells are taken out of service because of chemical contamination. A local minister...