Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Announcements:

Solomon R. Benatar to deliver University lecture: "Human Rights and Global Health: Some Critical Perspectives on System Failures" on December 2nd.
Solomon R. Benatar, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Founding Director of the University of Cape Town's Bioethics Centre, will deliver this lecture in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [ More...]

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards Rutgers’ Institute For Health Research $2.95 Million to Increase Diversity among Future Health Researchers
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a six-year, $2.95 million grant to continue support for Rutgers University’s Project L/EARN, an intensive summer research training internship for undergraduate students from groups that have been under-represented in graduate schools and health research careers. [ More...]

The Loss of Sadness Wins Book Award
The Loss of Sadness (Oxford University Press) by Allan V. [ More...]

Postdoctoral Opportunities Available
The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, directed by David Mechanic, offers postdoctoral opportunities for research and training in mental health research. [ More...]

Recent Publications:

	Making Up with Mom: Why Mothers and Daughters Disagree ... Julie Halpert and Deborah Carr
Young women today have infinitely more options than their mothers and grandmothers did decades ago. “Should I become a doctor, a writer, or a stay-at-home [ More...]

	Mental Health and Social Policy David Mechanic
The fifth edition of Mental Health and Social Policy takes a multidisciplinary approach to mental health and social policy. It covers mental health issues [ More...]

	The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal ... Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield
Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year [ More...]

	The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy Gerald N. Grob and Howard H. Goldman
Severe and persistent mental illnesses are among the most pressing health and social problems in contemporary America. Recent estimates suggest that more [ More...]

	A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, ... Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, Peter Guarnaccia, Editors
In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight—she had received [ More...]

	The Truth about Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working ... David Mechanic
The United States spends significantly more per person on health care than any other country but the evidence shows that care is often poor and inappropriate. [ More...]

	The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity ... Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton
Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference [ More...]

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