Category: Public affairs
3 review(s) found that match this category.
Just Don't Get Sick: Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare
Summer 2008
Victor Sidel, the co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, observes, "statistics are people with the tears washed away." Just Don't Get Sick, a new book by Karen Seccombe ('85 Ph.D. Soc.) and Kim Hoffman, offers a litany of statistics abou...
Categories: Public affairs, Political science
Tags: Health care policy
Flames in Our Forest: Disaster or Renewal?
Fall 2003
Forest fires have been much in the news. Beginning with the Yellowstone fires in 1988, the West has lived through a series of intense fire years. In 2000, the federal government spent nearly $1.6 billion fighting fires. But over the same period there...
Categories: Public affairs, Environmental studies
Tags: Forest fires
America's Nuclear Wastelands: Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup
Fall 2009
When engineers, physicists, and other scientists began making materials for nuclear bombs, the Manhattan Project sites around the country including Hanford, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge were wrapped in World War II and Cold War secrecy. The processes...
Categories: Public affairs, Environmental studies
Tags: Nuclear waste
