C Ramsay; ed. 488 pages. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publ; 1995. $79.50. ISBN 0-313-28618-3. Order phone 800-225-5800.
Descriptions of the organization and functions of a wide array of professional, commercial, union, educational, research, and lay organizations concerned with, and occasionally influential in, governmental and nongovernmental policies relevant to health and disease. Entries include addresses and telephone and fax numbers, and text describing, as relevant, each organization's origin and development, its structure and funding, its policy concerns and tactics, electoral activities, and sources of further information. The American College of Physicians is described on pages 46-49; the American Society of Internal Medicine on pages 143-146; and the American Medical Association on pages 95-101.
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