Daniel E Singer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1728947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel E Singer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel E |
| FAMILY NAME | Singer |
| SIGNATURE | SINGER D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6145-4848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cost-effectiveness of Screening for Atrial Fibrillation Using Wearable Devices
This economic evaluation of AF screening using a microsimulation decision-analytic model suggests that screening using wearable devices is cost-effective compared with either no screening or AF screening using traditional methods
Comparative effectiveness of post-discharge strategies for hospitalized smokers
Comparative Effectiveness of Post-Discharge Strategies for Hospitalized Smokers (Helping HAND2) NCT01714323. Registered October 22, 2012
Tobacco-, Alcohol-, and Drug-Attributable Deaths and Their Contribution to Mortality Disparities in a Cohort of Homeless Adults in Boston
Objectives. We quantified tobacco-, alcohol-, and drug-attributable deaths and their contribution to mortality disparities among homeless adults. Methods. We ascertained causes of death among 28 033 adults seen at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program in 2003 to 2008. We calculated population-attributable fractions to estimate the proportion of deaths attributable to tobacco, alcohol, or drug use. We compared attributable mortality rate…
Mortality Among Homeless Adults in Boston
BACKGROUND: Homeless persons experience excess mortality, but US-based studies on this topic are outdated or lack information about causes of death. To our knowledge, no studies have examined shifts in causes of death for this population over time. METHODS: We assessed all-cause and cause-specific mortality rates in a cohort of 28 033 adults 18 years or older who were seen at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program from January 1, 2003, throu…
The Unmet Health Care Needs of Homeless Adults
Objectives. We assessed the prevalence and predictors of past-year unmet needs for 5 types of health care services in a national sample of homeless adults. Methods. We analyzed data from 966 adult respondents to the 2003 Health Care for the Homeless User Survey, a sample representing more than 436 000 individuals nationally. Using multivariable logistic regression, we determined the independent predictors of each type of unmet need. Results. Seve…
Development and validation of a new health-related quality of life instrument for patients with sinusitis
Back to the Future
FEW DEVELOPMENTS could seem more unlikely in our current political and intellectual climate than a sudden reawakening of utopian energies on the left. Indeed, in most progressive quarters, die long winter of neoconservative reaction and capitalist tnumphalism has given rise to a pervasive sense of impotence and despair — feelings which are hardly conducive to the kind of expansive, hopeful, and visionary thinking we normally associate with utopia…
The Third Way and a New Left
There are fashionable terms that are at once misleading and revealing. The third way is one of them. There was a time when this concept had a genuine meaning. Back in the 1950s, for the so-called revisionists in Eastern Europe it spelled the search for democratic socialism that had nothing to do with its Stalinist perversion but was not a return to capitalism either. For some radical dissidents in the West it had the same signi?cance: it was thei…
Why We Need A New Manifesto
We need a new manifesto. Not a blueprint, not a detailed program. But a project, the vision of a different society, the proof that history has not come to an end, that there is a future beyond capitalism. We need it badly because its absence is the main weapon of our enemies. The nickname of Maggie Thatcher, TINA (There Is No Alternative) is the foundation on which their mighty propaganda machine rests.This article can also be found at the Monthl…
The French Winter of Discontent
On November 15 1995 Alain Juppe, the arrogant French Prime Minister, presented his plan to parliament for mastering expenditure on welfare, and particularly on national health. His proposed reform of the social services would, among other things, give him powers to act by decree and to transfer control of social services to parliament, away from bodies controlled jointly by employers and employees. He did not know, nor did anyone else, that he wo…
Requiem for Social Democracy
The fall of the Soviet empire was greeted not only as the funeral of socialism. It was also described as marking the final dead end for all revolutionary roads. The practitioners of revolution—Robespierre and Cromwell—as well as its theoreticians—Luxemburg and Marx—were lumped together in retrospective condemnation. Logically, such an offensive against the very idea of radical transformation should have been coupled with praise for gradualism, fo…
Why Marxism
Just before I left Paris I got a book from Michael Lowy with a new preface and a quotation I want to share with you. It said "Marx is definitely dead for humankind." Come on Daniel, you will object, did you have to travel all the way to give us that tripe we can get here for a penny a dozen! But it's not your tripe. It comes from Italy. It is by Benedetto Croce from 1907 and it's exactly ninety years old. I have quoted it to remind you that grave…
Is Socialism Doomed
Moment of Truth for Social Democracy
The coming years, the turn of this millennium, will be crucial for the left in western Europe. The way in which capital tackles the current structural crisis, growing unemployment, the open attack on the welfare state present a problem for social democracy, taken here in its now accepted definition: the reformist management of capitalist society. The message for today is plain. There is to be no more fooling with "capitalism with a human face." T…
Europe's Crises
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a well-orchestrated chorus proclaimed the end of history and capitalist eternity. History, as if offended by such silly predictions, quickened pace and today nobody will seriously contend that everything is for the best in the best all of possible capitalist worlds. On the contrary, we are obviously living in a time of deep crisis. The rapid capitalist invasion of Eastern Europe, nicknamed shock therapy,…
The resistible rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen
This article offers an overview of the growth of electoral support in France for the Front National [FN] and of the political biography of its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen. It argues that the extreme right has become a permanent feature of French politics and offers an explanation of why it is that the FN moved to the centre of the political stage in France during the 1980s. The explanation places particular emphasis upon the shifting balance of pol…
Prometheus Rebound
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;/ To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;/ To defy Power which seems omnipotent;/ To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates/From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...- Shelley, Prometheus UnboundThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Their Ideology and Ours
Review of The Power of Ideology by István Mészáros.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Wither the Soviet Union
Can radical reforms from above prevent a revolution, an upheaval from below? This classical question must now be applied to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as a whole. And it must be answered within a historical context. I ask the reader's forgiveness in advance if my summaries, definitions, and propositions, aimed simply at starting a debate, sound and really are oversimplified.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, wh…
The Intelligentsia and Soviet Change
Review of Revolution from Above: Where is the Soviet Union Going? by Tariq Ali; The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State from 1917 to the Present by Boris Kagarlitsky.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Is Socialism Doomed
Twenty Years On
The ghost of communism is not haunting Western Europe. Paris is no longer the capital of revolutionary hope. A visitor returning there after a long interval could hardly believe that this was the same town where twenty years earlier the established order was trembling, and imagination was supposed to seize power. Ironically, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary, the French staged one of these general elections which, for all the apparent pomp a…
Mitterand's Achievement
"Revolutions," Rosa Luxemburg wrote, "are the only kind of war in which ultimate victory can only be prepared through a series of 'defeats.'" The implication was that defeats are not in vain if we can learn from them. Today ultimate victory looks distant on the European horizon, but I still propose to draw some lessons from the severe defeat suffered by the French left in the recent parliamentary election.This article can also be found at the Mon…
Use and abuse of diagnostic services
The Road to Gdansk. Poland and the U.S.S.R
The Unmet Health Care Needs of Homeless Adults
Objectives. We assessed the prevalence and predictors of past-year unmet needs for 5 types of health care services in a national sample of homeless adults. Methods. We analyzed data from 966 adult respondents to the 2003 Health Care for the Homeless User Survey, a sample representing more than 436 000 individuals nationally. Using multivariable logistic regression, we determined the independent predictors of each type of unmet need. Results. Seve…
Tobacco-, Alcohol-, and Drug-Attributable Deaths and Their Contribution to Mortality Disparities in a Cohort of Homeless Adults in Boston
Objectives. We quantified tobacco-, alcohol-, and drug-attributable deaths and their contribution to mortality disparities among homeless adults. Methods. We ascertained causes of death among 28 033 adults seen at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program in 2003 to 2008. We calculated population-attributable fractions to estimate the proportion of deaths attributable to tobacco, alcohol, or drug use. We compared attributable mortality rate…
The resistible rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen
This article offers an overview of the growth of electoral support in France for the Front National [FN] and of the political biography of its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen. It argues that the extreme right has become a permanent feature of French politics and offers an explanation of why it is that the FN moved to the centre of the political stage in France during the 1980s. The explanation places particular emphasis upon the shifting balance of pol…
Prometheus Rebound
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;/ To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;/ To defy Power which seems omnipotent;/ To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates/From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...- Shelley, Prometheus UnboundThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The Road to Gdansk
The Road to Gdansk
The French Winter of Discontent
On November 15 1995 Alain Juppe, the arrogant French Prime Minister, presented his plan to parliament for mastering expenditure on welfare, and particularly on national health. His proposed reform of the social services would, among other things, give him powers to act by decree and to transfer control of social services to parliament, away from bodies controlled jointly by employers and employees. He did not know, nor did anyone else, that he wo…
Is Socialism Doomed
Wither the Soviet Union
Can radical reforms from above prevent a revolution, an upheaval from below? This classical question must now be applied to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as a whole. And it must be answered within a historical context. I ask the reader's forgiveness in advance if my summaries, definitions, and propositions, aimed simply at starting a debate, sound and really are oversimplified.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, wh…
Is Socialism Doomed
Class Struggle in Poland
It looked like the signing of a peace treaty between two sovereign powers. It was nearly 5 p.m. on that Sunday when—amid flashes of cameras and the noise of the recorders—the two main protagonists, their brief speeches over, signed the 21-point protocol. True, the setting was not very typical of diplomatic occasions. The ceremony was being held in the Lenin Shipyards and beamed through loudspeakers to thousands of workers standing outside. Nor wa…
Weakness and Potentialities of the Dissident Movement
A century ago Russian tsardom seemed terrorized by a handful of rebels. Today, the Soviet rulers give the impression of not being unduly worried by their dissidents, despite the echo their protests arouse around the world. The reason for this declining power of the dissident intelligentsia cannot be quantitative. Without entering here into a semantic argument about the definition of the intelligentsia, it is obvious that the educated strata from …
Class Struggle in Poland
It looked like the signing of a peace treaty between two sovereign powers. It was nearly 5 p.m. on that Sunday when—amid flashes of cameras and the noise of the recorders—the two main protagonists, their brief speeches over, signed the 21-point protocol. True, the setting was not very typical of diplomatic occasions. The ceremony was being held in the Lenin Shipyards and beamed through loudspeakers to thousands of workers standing outside. Nor wa…
The Road to Gdansk
The Revolution is But a Beginning
Review of Post-Revolutionary Society by Paul M. Sweezy.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Août-octobre 1980
The Road to Gdansk
Options for health and health care
The Road to Gdansk. Poland and the U.S.S.R
Use and abuse of diagnostic services
Mitterand's Achievement
"Revolutions," Rosa Luxemburg wrote, "are the only kind of war in which ultimate victory can only be prepared through a series of 'defeats.'" The implication was that defeats are not in vain if we can learn from them. Today ultimate victory looks distant on the European horizon, but I still propose to draw some lessons from the severe defeat suffered by the French left in the recent parliamentary election.This article can also be found at the Mon…
Is Socialism Doomed
Twenty Years On
The ghost of communism is not haunting Western Europe. Paris is no longer the capital of revolutionary hope. A visitor returning there after a long interval could hardly believe that this was the same town where twenty years earlier the established order was trembling, and imagination was supposed to seize power. Ironically, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary, the French staged one of these general elections which, for all the apparent pomp a…
Wither the Soviet Union
Can radical reforms from above prevent a revolution, an upheaval from below? This classical question must now be applied to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as a whole. And it must be answered within a historical context. I ask the reader's forgiveness in advance if my summaries, definitions, and propositions, aimed simply at starting a debate, sound and really are oversimplified.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, wh…
The Intelligentsia and Soviet Change
Review of Revolution from Above: Where is the Soviet Union Going? by Tariq Ali; The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State from 1917 to the Present by Boris Kagarlitsky.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Prometheus Rebound
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;/ To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;/ To defy Power which seems omnipotent;/ To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates/From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...- Shelley, Prometheus UnboundThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Their Ideology and Ours
Review of The Power of Ideology by István Mészáros.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The resistible rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen
This article offers an overview of the growth of electoral support in France for the Front National [FN] and of the political biography of its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen. It argues that the extreme right has become a permanent feature of French politics and offers an explanation of why it is that the FN moved to the centre of the political stage in France during the 1980s. The explanation places particular emphasis upon the shifting balance of pol…
Europe's Crises
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a well-orchestrated chorus proclaimed the end of history and capitalist eternity. History, as if offended by such silly predictions, quickened pace and today nobody will seriously contend that everything is for the best in the best all of possible capitalist worlds. On the contrary, we are obviously living in a time of deep crisis. The rapid capitalist invasion of Eastern Europe, nicknamed shock therapy,…
Is Socialism Doomed
Moment of Truth for Social Democracy
The coming years, the turn of this millennium, will be crucial for the left in western Europe. The way in which capital tackles the current structural crisis, growing unemployment, the open attack on the welfare state present a problem for social democracy, taken here in its now accepted definition: the reformist management of capitalist society. The message for today is plain. There is to be no more fooling with "capitalism with a human face." T…
The French Winter of Discontent
On November 15 1995 Alain Juppe, the arrogant French Prime Minister, presented his plan to parliament for mastering expenditure on welfare, and particularly on national health. His proposed reform of the social services would, among other things, give him powers to act by decree and to transfer control of social services to parliament, away from bodies controlled jointly by employers and employees. He did not know, nor did anyone else, that he wo…
Requiem for Social Democracy
The fall of the Soviet empire was greeted not only as the funeral of socialism. It was also described as marking the final dead end for all revolutionary roads. The practitioners of revolution—Robespierre and Cromwell—as well as its theoreticians—Luxemburg and Marx—were lumped together in retrospective condemnation. Logically, such an offensive against the very idea of radical transformation should have been coupled with praise for gradualism, fo…
Why Marxism
Just before I left Paris I got a book from Michael Lowy with a new preface and a quotation I want to share with you. It said "Marx is definitely dead for humankind." Come on Daniel, you will object, did you have to travel all the way to give us that tripe we can get here for a penny a dozen! But it's not your tripe. It comes from Italy. It is by Benedetto Croce from 1907 and it's exactly ninety years old. I have quoted it to remind you that grave…
Why We Need A New Manifesto
We need a new manifesto. Not a blueprint, not a detailed program. But a project, the vision of a different society, the proof that history has not come to an end, that there is a future beyond capitalism. We need it badly because its absence is the main weapon of our enemies. The nickname of Maggie Thatcher, TINA (There Is No Alternative) is the foundation on which their mighty propaganda machine rests.This article can also be found at the Monthl…
The Third Way and a New Left
There are fashionable terms that are at once misleading and revealing. The third way is one of them. There was a time when this concept had a genuine meaning. Back in the 1950s, for the so-called revisionists in Eastern Europe it spelled the search for democratic socialism that had nothing to do with its Stalinist perversion but was not a return to capitalism either. For some radical dissidents in the West it had the same signi?cance: it was thei…
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