December 2011  (Volume 89)

Bradford H. Gray, 

In This Issue

Featured Article

Trisha Greenhalgh,  Jill Russell,  Richard E. Ashcroft,  Wayne Parsons, 

Why National eHealth Programs Need Dead Philosophers: Wittgensteinian Reflections on Policymakers’ Reluctance to Learn from History

Abby S. Haynes,  James A. Gillespie,  Gemma E. Derrick,  Wayne D. Hall,  Sally Redman,  Simon Chapman,  Heidi Sturk, 

Galvanizers, Guides, Champions, and Shields: The Many Ways That Policymakers Use Public Health Researchers

George Silberman,  Katherine L. Kahn, 

Burdens on Research Imposed by Institutional Review Boards: The State of the Evidence and Its Implications for Regulatory Reform

Allan V. Horwitz,  Gerald N. Grob, 

The Checkered History of American Psychiatric Epidemiology

John Frank,  Sally Haw, 

Best Practice Guidelines for Monitoring Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health Status: Lessons from Scotland

Jeff Larrimore, 

Does a Higher Income Have Positive Health Effects? Using the Earned Income Tax Credit to Explore the Income-Health Gradient

J. Paul Leigh, 

Economic Burden of Occupational Injury and Illness in the United States