PHM-Exch> Health Policy Advisory Center (Health/PAC) on line and free

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: David Legge <D.Legge at latrobe.edu.au>
From: spiritof1848 at yahoogroups.com


      We've created an extraordinary  archive of all past issues of
Heath/PAC, the radical health policy journal that produced some of the most
trenchant analyses of health issues from the 1960s through the 1990s. It is
a great resource for students of the social movements of the last forty
years and will make a great primary source for all.
  It's completely searchable.  The website is (and always will be) a
work-in-progress and we invite any and all comments and suggestions (
contact at healthpacbulletin.org).  Our desire is not only to preserve and
understand the history of an important period of health activism but to
serve the community of those whose lives were touched or changed by it and
those who continue to seek social justice through the health system.

   Here's the announcement and links:


  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  March 25, 2013

  Contact:  contact at healthpacbulletin.org
  HEALTH/PAC (POLICY ADVISORY CENTER) BULLETINS NOW AVAILABLE ON LINE,
SEARCHABLE AND FREE AT www.healthpacbulletin.org


  Before there was an internet, with blogs, listservs and web pages to turn
to, there was the Health/PAC Bulletin, the hard-hitting and muckraking
journal of health activism and health care system analyses and critiques. A
new web site, www.healthpacbulletin.org, is a complete and searchable
digital collection of Health/PAC's influential publication, which was
published from 1968 through 1993. Health/PAC staffers and authors in New
York City and briefly, a West Coast office in San Francisco, wrote and
spoke to health activists across the country on every issue from free
clinics to women's health struggles to health worker organizing to
environmental justice.  Health/PAC both reported on what was going on and
reflected back on a wide variety of strategies and tactics to build a more
just health care system - a conversation that continues today.

  Health/PAC coined the terms "medical empire" and "medical industrial
complex" to capture the ways the profit motive distorted priorities in the
American health care system. It critiqued big Pharma and rising health care
costs, explored the differing forms of health activism, and made it clear
that a seemingly disorganized health care system was in fact quite
organized to serve ends other than health care.  Its first book, The
American Health Empire (1970), published by Random House, brought its
analysis to national attention. Other edited collections of the Bulletins
followed: Prognosis Negative (1976) and Beyond Crisis (1994).  Many of
today's leading health activists, reformers and policy scholars got their
start at Health/ PAC.

  The website adds immeasurably to the resources documenting the history of
mid- to late- 20th century American health policy and politics.
  Activists, scholars, journalists, practitioners, professors, and students
will all find these Bulletins a source of useful analysis and information.
 This is not only a way to learn about the late 20th century history, but
to consider why certain issues continue to plague our health system.

  The site is a work in progress and we welcome your feedback and
suggestions. It was a real labor to get these collected and available and
we hope you find the site a useful resource. .


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  Merlin Chowkwanyun, Feygele Jacobs, Ronda Kotelchuck and Susan M.
  Reverby for the former HEALTH/PAC staff and board

  The Health/PAC Archives Workgroup
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