Bøker av Rosemary A. Stevens

Research on meditation has been plagued by insubstantial theorizing, global claims, and the substitution of belief systems for grounded hypotheses. This book aims to puncture some of the myths about meditation, while retaining a place of value for mediation as a normal human function.

Since the late 1980s welfare policies in France and the United States have increasingly been shaped by a strong emphasis on citizens' obligations to work and be independent, and a weakening of entitlements to income maintenance

The present study was undertaken for three reasons: Medicaid is a vital program-in the early 1970s it provided care for over one tenth of the American population

Despite the increase in meditation studies, the quality remains variable; many of them are trivial, and most remain unreplicated

This volume contains a comprehensive study of the Medicaid programme in the United States.

This work provides an analysis of the development and structure of modern welfare programmes and how they function. The dynamics of welfare reform are covered by focusing on two programmes - the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion in France and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families in the USA.

Explores the interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health care in terms of its history and its continuing evolution. This work demonstrates the long history of state government involvement with private not-for-profit hospitals from the 1870s through the 1930s.