New Issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association is Now Available

August 19, 2009

JAMA (Volume 302, Number 6, August 12, 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

  • “Unfinished Business in Tobacco Control” by Jonathan M. Samet and Heather Wipfli, 681-682.
  • “Structural Interventions for Addressing Chronic Health Problems” by Mitchell H. Katz, 683-685.
  • “Hospital Mortality and Leapfrog Hospital Survey Results”by Peter B. Angood and Helen Burstin, 625-626.
  • “Funding Transparency” by Mike Mitka, 619.
  • “Veteran Care Mishandled” by Mike Mitka, 619.
  • “Rescinding Coverage” by Mike Mitka, 619.

Book and Media Reviews Include:

  • “Populations, Public Health, and the Law” by Edward P. Richards, 691-692.
  • “The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care” by Lynn C. Smitherman, 692-693.
  • “A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era” by Dennis Rosen, 693=695.
  • “The Future of Bioethics” by Deborah Bowman, 695.