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Portrait Of A Policy And Political Entrepreneur
When the author learned of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's death, he shared with millions around the world a deep sense of personal and professional loss. Inevitably, the personal dominated. Here was a man, great and flawed, mythical and mortal, who could operate with equal comfort on the world stage and in personal relationships. He affected the history of nations and of countless unheralded individuals who passed through the powerful force field that he projected. Kennedy was a policy and political entrepreneur. No health care issue was too minor or obscure, as long as it affected the real problems of real people. Watching Kennedy, he learned that there was a form of excellence that was totally different from, and much rarer than, the technical and scholastic brilliance that had so impressed him during his academic training.
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Edward M. Kennedy : an oral history
\"For Kennedy devotees, as well as readers unfamiliar with the \"lion of the Senate,\" this book presents the compelling story of Edward Kennedy's unexpected rise to become one of the most consequential legislators in American history and a passionate defender of progressive values, achieving legislative compromises across the partisan divide. What distinguishes Edward Kennedy: An Oral History is the nuanced detail that emerges from the senator's never-before published, complete descriptions of his life and work, placed alongside the observations of his friends, family, and associates. The senator's twenty released interviews reveal, in his own voice, the stories of Kennedy triumph and tragedy from the Oval Office to the waters of Chappaquiddick. Spanning the presidencies of JFK to Barack Obama, Edward Kennedy was an iconic player in American political life, the youngest sibling of America's most powerful dynasty; he candidly addresses this role: his legislative accomplishments and failures, his unsuccessful run for the White House, his impact on the Supreme Court, his observations on Washington gridlock, and his personal faults. The interviews and introductions to them create an unsurpassed and illuminating volume. Gathered as part of the massive Edward Kennedy Oral History Project, conducted by the University of Virginia's Miller Center, the senator's interviews allow readers to see how oral history can evolve over a three-year period, drawing out additional details as the interviewee becomes increasingly comfortable with the process and the interviewer. Yet, given the Kennedys' well-known penchant for image creation, what the senator doesn't say or how he says what he chooses to include, is often more revealing than a simple declarative statement.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Senator Kennedy's Legacy to U.S. Health and Health Care
Kennedy recognized that biomedical research provides knowledge that is essential to improving health and took seriously his responsibility as chairman of the authorizing committee for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Because the legal authority for the NIH must be renewed regularly, he was in a key position to oversee biomedical research.
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy: The Master Legislative Craftsman
Sen Edward M. Kennedy was the indispensable senator in health care, as in so many other areas of national policy. His influence extended across the broad range of health policy, from the National Institutes of Health to community health centers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Medicare and Medicaid. And, of course, his influence encompassed the continuing struggle to guarantee high quality, affordable health care for every American. To achieve his goals, Kennedy used a number of tools in his tool kit, pulling each of them out as needed. These included solid policy analysis, since the senator wanted to develop the best policies possible and the best arguments available to support those policies. Engaging key advocacy and interest groups was another of Kennedy's talents. Kennedy created most of the categorical programs that were later folded into the preventive health block grant and the mental health services block grant.
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy: Making Common Cause With Adversaries While Committed To Health Reform
American political institutions are designed constitutionally to make large-scale reform in any sphere difficult. And if no one -- from presidents on down -- has been able to meet that test, there are still other appropriate benchmarks by which to judge the role of a health policy leader. By the first standard, Kennedy was a noteworthy figure. He brought passion, eloquence, and clarity to the debate about what American medical care should be like. By the second criterion -- having discernible influence amid less dramatic change -- Kennedy, if anything, cut even more prominent a figure. He combined a vivid, uncompromising conception of what reforms were needed with an ability to find common ground with adversaries on less contentious policy changes. The author's sense is that a healthy Kennedy would have made a difference over the past months -- not in heading off the worst people have seen in terms of the low level of the current debate, but in reducing its prominence.
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Human genome editing: ask whether, not how
The scientific community’s response to the CRISPR twins should not pre-empt broader discussion across society, warns J. Benjamin Hurlbut.
The scientific community’s response to the CRISPR twins should not pre-empt broader discussion across society, warns J. Benjamin Hurlbut.
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Getting Nurses on Boards
While the rationale for including nurses may be clear to nurses and nurse leaders, it is not necessarily clear to those outside of nursing. Nursing leadership needs to demand participation in decisions that will affect the nursing service.
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