The Jewish Tradition; The Early Christian Tradition; The Medieval Catholic Tradition; The Roman Catholic Tradition Since 1545; The Eastern Orthodox Tradition; The Lutheran Tradition; The Reformed Tradition; The Anglican Tradition; The Anabaptist Tradition; The Baptist Tradition; The Wesleyan-Methodist Tradition; The Unitarian and Universalist Traditions; The Disciples of Christ-Church of Christ Tradition; The Mormon Tradition; The Christian Science Tradition; The Adventist Tradition; The Jehovah's Witness Tradition; The Evangelical-Fundamentalist Tradition; The Pentecostal Tradition; and, The Afro-American Traditions.

Is there a crisis in disability benefit policy?  This book, an assessment of disability income policy in public and private programs in the United States and in European countries, draws on an in-depth review of Social Security disability programs by a panel of national experts.   The authors highlight the panel's findings and recommendations for reform, debate is sues in financing and delivering quality health care through Medicare and Medicaid for working-age persons with disabilities, and examine the new ways in which Worker's Compensation organizes and finances cash benefits and health care for workers injured on the job.  These developments in benefits and health policy for disabled workers are examined in the light of budget constraints and challenges posed by today's rapidly changing labor market.  The book concludes with a provocative discussion of "where are the jobs?"  - an evaluation of growing wage inequality between less skilled and highly skilled workers and the implication of labor market trends for that goal of promoting employment among persons with chronic health conditions or disabilities.

Description:   As society, we are increasingly recognizing the pervasiveness and significance of the disability experience.   Indeed, disability is a universal concern.  This innovative book discusses the disability experience from the perspective of the individual with a disability and from the perspective of society, and then explores the relationship between these two viewpoints.  Organized around broad themes as opposed to disability categories, with an engaging writing style and extensive references, Disability, Society, and the Individual introduces the reader to complex, important, and new ideas surrounding disability - its experience and its social and cultural context.

Health Care Divided:  Race and Healing a Nation tells the story from 1920 to the present by distilling a narrative from archival records and interviews with key participants.  The book traces the decisive role race has played in shaping the development of American medicine and our system of medical care and goes on to explore the effect of this legacy on the organization of long-term care for the elderly and prenatal care for infants.

In 1995, virtually every established social program in Canada underwent fundamental reconsideration.  All the provinces looked critically at their public assistance legislation, and even when they did not change the basic structure of their programs, they reduced their benefits.   Similar re-examination faced Medicare and hospital insurance, both of which, according to innumerable public opinion polls, are part of what defines Canada to Canadians (certainly part of what distinguishes us from the United States, widely stereotyped by us as relatively heartless in such matters).

Discusses the necessity and urgency of Medicare reform, offering differing solutions to ensure the fairness and efficiency needed to preserve the program.

Coupling empirical evidence with the interdisciplinary tools and insights of disability studies, the book explores the complex meanings of disability as identity and cultural signifier in American history.

Contending that anti-competitive behavior on the part of doctors, hospitals, insurance carriers and the federal government was responsible for the dysfunctional growth of health care, the author offers historical analysis from the establishment of a market for health care services to the growth of scientific medicine, the expansion of the market, and finally to the current state of competition in an era of continuing growth.  The final two chapters discuss what went wrong and why, and the promise of health care reform; the latter deals specifically with the Clinton reform proposal and offers an alternative plan.

Explores the gender, class, and political dynamics of one dimension of the black struggle for improved health.  Refusing to see black women as passive recipients of aid or victims of neglect, focuses on activists who tried to create public health programs and influence public policy.

Included are descriptions of the Social Security and Medicare program benefits, eligibility requirements, and application processes.  The book provides the framework to assist readers in the development and analysis of the impending financial crisis of the Social Security program.  It summarizes a number of proposals to avert the problem, and assesses the policy implications of these plans.  It suggests political strategies for promoting fair and adequate solutions to the program's financial problems.

Social Service Delivery Systems:   An Agenda for Reform explores social reform as a necessary second phase of Latin America's structural adjustment.  Chapters examine the most effective methods and policies for delivering social services, including decentralization and privatization.

Designed to provide social service professionals with ideas and approaches for better understanding and meeting the needs of Latinos.  Social Services in Latino Communities:  Research and Strategies presents a variety of case studies that will help you develop culturally competent research and practice methods.  This guide will lead you to a better understanding of the circumstances and contexts in which Latinos live and function.   This will enable you to develop innovative models of service delivery, based upon community assets rather than deficits. From this text, you will learn why identifying, assessing, and engaging indigenous resources is a key to increasing Latino client and community satisfaction with your agency and the services it offers.

In this thoroughly updated second edition, Judith Walzer Leavitt, a leading authority on the history of women's health issues, has collected thirty-five articles representing important scholarship in this once-neglected field.  Timely and fascinating, this volume is organized chronologically and then by topic, covering studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods and the nineteenth century through the Civil War.  The remainder of the book concentrates on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and addresses such controversial issues as body image and physical fitness, sexuality, fertility, abortion and birth control, childbirth and motherhood, mental illness, women's health care providers (midwives, nurses, physicians), and health reform and public health.