Books in the Yale Fastback Series series

The authors of this text discuss current policies, efforts and programmes designed to deal with the poor and analyze what works, what does not work, and why. They promote policies that would facilitate leaving welfare for work - particulary in the case of single mothers.

This work points out the fallacies in proposals for welfare reform, arguing that they merely recycle old remedies that have not worked. It analyzes the prejudice that has historically existed against "the underserving poor", and shows stereotypes of single women as being untrue.

The reform of American medical care is an important topic in America's domestic agenda and the centrepiece of the Clinton administration's plans for social policy and long-term economic development. This book intends to clarify the current debate over the bill and the proposed alternatives to it.

This text offers ideas on how America can respond to changing public health and ecological risks and create sound environmental policy for the future.

Discusses the Iran-Contra affair and its implications.

This study looks at the issues facing children whose parents are dying of AIDS: what children experience; how it affects them; how their emotional needs can be met and second families found; and the stigmas they face. Stories of children, told in their own words, are included.

The author proposes a new kind of democracy for the modern era, one which gives citizens more power and more opportunities to exercise this power thoughtfully. He suggests a solution to the problem of inadequate deliberation, in particular within the American presidential nomination system.

Patterns of avoidance, denial and segregation on the part of various organizations in the face of the AIDS crisis and its victims are detailed in this book. The authors contend that an all-out war on AIDS which also attacks sexual discrimination and poverty is necessary.

A guide to government benefits and programs includes advice about insurance coverage, taxes, and survivor benefits.

Discusses the current US health care crisis and alternative proposals, including the Clinton administration's. Drawing on wide medical and business experience, the study suggests implementing a new federal policy at state and local levels, which best understand their area's needs.

Problems encountered as science makes genetic control of man a real possibility. Includes discussions of asexual reproduction of men, frozen semen banks, and breeding human beings for special purposes.

An agenda of basic questions about the impact of social science and research on real life problems, and how social scientists are often crippled by a misunderstanding of their own trade.

A discussion of the diagnosis of breast cancer and the risks, benefits and limitations of treatment alternatives, particularly tamoxifen. This edition contains information on developments in the use of tamoxifen, especially in the results of the Breast Cancer Prevention Trial.

A practicing attorney views the sexual harassment of working women as a pervasive social problem and presents a legal argument that it is discrimination based on sex.

Controversial analysis of the Jackson campaign by a black scholar who argues that his candidacy hurt the development of a viable black political movement.

Exposes a self-serving game, typically played by congressmen to curry favor with constituents, that involves the creation and subsequent dissolution of government service agencies.