Allen W Imershein
Biographic Data
| ID | 82883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen W Imershein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen W |
| FAMILY NAME | Imershein |
| SIGNATURE | IMERSHEIN A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Making and Meaning of Hospital Policy in the United States and Canada
Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Vol. 15
The Conditions for State Action in Florida's Health-Care Market
Despite the lack of confidence in government agencies to operate a nationalized health-care system in the United States, government agencies have significantly influenced the distribution and financing of health-care services in the market. Using the State of Florida as a case study, we examine the conditions under which a state health-care agency can consistently influence health-care market arrangements. We examined records from Florida's legis…
The Social Organization of Mental Illness
The Multiple Jeopardy of Race, Class, and Gender for Aids Risk Among Women
This article focuses on the ways that sexual risk behaviors are related to race, class, and gender among low-income, culturally diverse women in South Florida. Data concerning sexual risk (frequency of condom use) and gender (decision making with regard to condom use and gender attitudes) are presented in terms of race and class variations. Results indicate that, in general, these women have a high degree of knowledge about acquired immune defici…
Rural Community and Physician Perspectives on Resource Factors Affecting Physician Retention
This study was undertaken to investigate issues affecting recruitment and retention of physicians in a rural north Florida community. As part of this investigation, the authors examined the relevant context of medical care and physician practice for this community. The results identify a number of problems not uncommon in rural communities and supported by previous literature. Physicians felt isolated, dissatisfied with job security and professio…
The Management of Normality
Introduction: PART ONE THE MEDICAL REGIME 1. DISEASE AND DEPENDENCY: 2. AFFECT MANAGEMENT IN A CANCER WARD The hospital regime as a form of affect management Defence strategies in the cancer ward Exceptional states: 3. EXPANSION AND LIMITATION OF THE MEDICAL REGIME The medicalization of daily life Early warnings of health risks Lenghier lives, lengthier illnesses Medical advice The expansion of the medical regime: PART TWO THE PSYCHOTHERAPY TRADE…
Restructuring Patterns of Elite Dominance and the Formation of State Policy in Health Care
The authors analyze recent state intervention to control health care costs as both reflecting and fostering changes in previously prevailing patterns of dominance among health care elites and between those elites and nonhealth elites. The authors contend that these health policy outcomes reflect a divergence of material interests and a political fragmentation among dominant health elites and between those and nonhealth, especially corporate, elit…
Service Networks in Florida
Once thought dying, services integration is showing signs of new life under a new name. Reformist concerns for coordinated programming and administrative efficiencies have taken a number of forms over the past 20 years. Federal block grants are the latest and, by all intents, the most widespread. While other political considerations were obviously involved in the Reagan administration's proposals for and congressional passage of block grant legis…
The Social Logic of Health
The Second Sickness
Challenges and Innovations in U.S. Health Care
Toward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm
I. FOUNDATIONS OF GOVERNMENT 1. The Political Landscape 2. The Constitution 3. Federalism 4. Civil Liberties 5. Civil Rights II. INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT 6. Congress 7. The Presidency 8. The Executive Branch and the Federal Bureaucracy 9. The Judiciary III. POLITICAL BEHAVIOR. 10. Public Opinion and the News Media 11. Political Parties and Interest Groups 12. Elections, Campaigns, and Voting IV. PUBLIC POLICY 13. Social and Economic Policy 14. …
Manufacturing Consent
Human Service Reorganization and Its Effects
The present discussion reports on some of the first statewide data gathering and analysis to assess the consequences of the 1975 reorganization of the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. Two major concepts guiding the reorganization were: (1) integration of services in order to cover more adequately the needs of clients, including "multi-problem" clients, and (2) decentralization of administrative authority of all programs u…
American Health Care
Recent commentary on the health care scene in the U.S. has moved increasingly toward explanations of why little or no change has occurred despite many declarations of "crisis." From Alford's (1975) elitist analysis in Health Care Politics to Navarro's (1976) marxist analysis in Medicine Under Capitalism, critics in and out of the social sciences have tried to make sense of the array of current problems and the apparent lack of response to or chan…
The Impact of Consumerism on Health Care Change
The quest for consumer participation in the management of health care delivery may have experienced its first signs of success, but the implications of that success are as yet unclear. The establishment of consumer majorities on the newly developed health systems agency (HSA) boards was seen as an important milestone in the development of the consumer movement in America over the last ten years. The initial wave of optimism over the Great Society…
Professionalism and the Control of Knowledge
Madness becomes mental illness through the joint project of psychiatry and the community of consensus lent to it. The psychiatrist, like the shaman (to paraphrase Leve'-Strauss), acts through the cultural plasma of his times. And the psychiatrist provides a definition for events, making mental illness of madness, while occupying a unique position within the scheme of society. Psychiatry has been attacked from many directions in recent years. Desp…
Power, Paradigms, and Community Research
Marxism and Pluralism
Power, Paradigms, and Community Research
Power and Illness
The Epistemological Bases of Social Order
The study of the relation between knowledge and behavior has a long standing tradition in both the social sciences and philosophy. The issue took on renewed interest in philosophy with the writings of Wittgenstein (especially 1953, 1958) and the development of ordinary language philosophy (see for example Ryle, 1949; Austin, 1962; Hampshire, 1959; among many) which has only recently begun to have its impact on sociology.' The Chomskyan revolution…
Medical Nemesis
Organizational Change as a Paradigm Shift
Organizational change may be considered as analogous to scientific change. Kuhn's analysis of scientific activities as paradigm guided is applied to an organizational framework to suggest that organizational activities may be understood in the same fashion. This perspective is briefly applied to the current controversy in health care. Research attention is directed toward the use of knowledge in organizational activities and in health care in par…
Sociology
The Multiple Jeopardy of Race, Class, and Gender for Aids Risk Among Women
This article focuses on the ways that sexual risk behaviors are related to race, class, and gender among low-income, culturally diverse women in South Florida. Data concerning sexual risk (frequency of condom use) and gender (decision making with regard to condom use and gender attitudes) are presented in terms of race and class variations. Results indicate that, in general, these women have a high degree of knowledge about acquired immune defici…
Human Service Reorganization and Its Effects
The present discussion reports on some of the first statewide data gathering and analysis to assess the consequences of the 1975 reorganization of the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. Two major concepts guiding the reorganization were: (1) integration of services in order to cover more adequately the needs of clients, including "multi-problem" clients, and (2) decentralization of administrative authority of all programs u…
Restructuring Patterns of Elite Dominance and the Formation of State Policy in Health Care
The authors analyze recent state intervention to control health care costs as both reflecting and fostering changes in previously prevailing patterns of dominance among health care elites and between those elites and nonhealth elites. The authors contend that these health policy outcomes reflect a divergence of material interests and a political fragmentation among dominant health elites and between those and nonhealth, especially corporate, elit…
Service Networks in Florida
Once thought dying, services integration is showing signs of new life under a new name. Reformist concerns for coordinated programming and administrative efficiencies have taken a number of forms over the past 20 years. Federal block grants are the latest and, by all intents, the most widespread. While other political considerations were obviously involved in the Reagan administration's proposals for and congressional passage of block grant legis…
Organizational Change as a Paradigm Shift
Organizational change may be considered as analogous to scientific change. Kuhn's analysis of scientific activities as paradigm guided is applied to an organizational framework to suggest that organizational activities may be understood in the same fashion. This perspective is briefly applied to the current controversy in health care. Research attention is directed toward the use of knowledge in organizational activities and in health care in par…
Rules and Examples in Lay and Professional Psychiatry
The Conditions for State Action in Florida's Health-Care Market
Despite the lack of confidence in government agencies to operate a nationalized health-care system in the United States, government agencies have significantly influenced the distribution and financing of health-care services in the market. Using the State of Florida as a case study, we examine the conditions under which a state health-care agency can consistently influence health-care market arrangements. We examined records from Florida's legis…
The Epistemological Bases of Social Order
The study of the relation between knowledge and behavior has a long standing tradition in both the social sciences and philosophy. The issue took on renewed interest in philosophy with the writings of Wittgenstein (especially 1953, 1958) and the development of ordinary language philosophy (see for example Ryle, 1949; Austin, 1962; Hampshire, 1959; among many) which has only recently begun to have its impact on sociology.' The Chomskyan revolution…
Rules of the Game
Burns and Saul Social Theory and Economic Change (1967) Hb: 0-415-26495-2 Cherns et al Social Science and Government: Policies and Problems (1972) Hb: 0-415-26496-0 Collins The Use of Models in the Social Sciences (1976) Hb: 0-415-26497-9 de Kadt and Williams Sociology and Development (1974) Hb: 0-415-26498-7 Friend et al Public Planning (1974) Hb: 0-415-26499-5 Jones Immigration and Social Policy in Britain (1977) Hb: 0-415-26500-2 Parkin The So…
Rules and Examples in Lay and Professional Psychiatry
Health Care Politics
The Reality of Ethnomethodology
Sociology
The Epistemological Bases of Social Order
The study of the relation between knowledge and behavior has a long standing tradition in both the social sciences and philosophy. The issue took on renewed interest in philosophy with the writings of Wittgenstein (especially 1953, 1958) and the development of ordinary language philosophy (see for example Ryle, 1949; Austin, 1962; Hampshire, 1959; among many) which has only recently begun to have its impact on sociology.' The Chomskyan revolution…
Medical Nemesis
Organizational Change as a Paradigm Shift
Organizational change may be considered as analogous to scientific change. Kuhn's analysis of scientific activities as paradigm guided is applied to an organizational framework to suggest that organizational activities may be understood in the same fashion. This perspective is briefly applied to the current controversy in health care. Research attention is directed toward the use of knowledge in organizational activities and in health care in par…
Marxism and Pluralism
Power, Paradigms, and Community Research
Power and Illness
Professionalism and the Control of Knowledge
Madness becomes mental illness through the joint project of psychiatry and the community of consensus lent to it. The psychiatrist, like the shaman (to paraphrase Leve'-Strauss), acts through the cultural plasma of his times. And the psychiatrist provides a definition for events, making mental illness of madness, while occupying a unique position within the scheme of society. Psychiatry has been attacked from many directions in recent years. Desp…
Power, Paradigms, and Community Research
American Health Care
Recent commentary on the health care scene in the U.S. has moved increasingly toward explanations of why little or no change has occurred despite many declarations of "crisis." From Alford's (1975) elitist analysis in Health Care Politics to Navarro's (1976) marxist analysis in Medicine Under Capitalism, critics in and out of the social sciences have tried to make sense of the array of current problems and the apparent lack of response to or chan…
The Impact of Consumerism on Health Care Change
The quest for consumer participation in the management of health care delivery may have experienced its first signs of success, but the implications of that success are as yet unclear. The establishment of consumer majorities on the newly developed health systems agency (HSA) boards was seen as an important milestone in the development of the consumer movement in America over the last ten years. The initial wave of optimism over the Great Society…
Human Service Reorganization and Its Effects
The present discussion reports on some of the first statewide data gathering and analysis to assess the consequences of the 1975 reorganization of the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. Two major concepts guiding the reorganization were: (1) integration of services in order to cover more adequately the needs of clients, including "multi-problem" clients, and (2) decentralization of administrative authority of all programs u…
Manufacturing Consent
Challenges and Innovations in U.S. Health Care
Toward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm
I. FOUNDATIONS OF GOVERNMENT 1. The Political Landscape 2. The Constitution 3. Federalism 4. Civil Liberties 5. Civil Rights II. INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT 6. Congress 7. The Presidency 8. The Executive Branch and the Federal Bureaucracy 9. The Judiciary III. POLITICAL BEHAVIOR. 10. Public Opinion and the News Media 11. Political Parties and Interest Groups 12. Elections, Campaigns, and Voting IV. PUBLIC POLICY 13. Social and Economic Policy 14. …
The Second Sickness
Service Networks in Florida
Once thought dying, services integration is showing signs of new life under a new name. Reformist concerns for coordinated programming and administrative efficiencies have taken a number of forms over the past 20 years. Federal block grants are the latest and, by all intents, the most widespread. While other political considerations were obviously involved in the Reagan administration's proposals for and congressional passage of block grant legis…
The Social Logic of Health
Rural Community and Physician Perspectives on Resource Factors Affecting Physician Retention
This study was undertaken to investigate issues affecting recruitment and retention of physicians in a rural north Florida community. As part of this investigation, the authors examined the relevant context of medical care and physician practice for this community. The results identify a number of problems not uncommon in rural communities and supported by previous literature. Physicians felt isolated, dissatisfied with job security and professio…
The Management of Normality
Introduction: PART ONE THE MEDICAL REGIME 1. DISEASE AND DEPENDENCY: 2. AFFECT MANAGEMENT IN A CANCER WARD The hospital regime as a form of affect management Defence strategies in the cancer ward Exceptional states: 3. EXPANSION AND LIMITATION OF THE MEDICAL REGIME The medicalization of daily life Early warnings of health risks Lenghier lives, lengthier illnesses Medical advice The expansion of the medical regime: PART TWO THE PSYCHOTHERAPY TRADE…
Restructuring Patterns of Elite Dominance and the Formation of State Policy in Health Care
The authors analyze recent state intervention to control health care costs as both reflecting and fostering changes in previously prevailing patterns of dominance among health care elites and between those elites and nonhealth elites. The authors contend that these health policy outcomes reflect a divergence of material interests and a political fragmentation among dominant health elites and between those and nonhealth, especially corporate, elit…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (19 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Economics (11 works) · Health care (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Business (7 works)