"The United States stands out among rich countries in resisting evidence-based medicine--not in theory, perhaps, but in practice. In this informative book, the authors, all political scientists, document this phenomenon and then consider why ordinary people, physicians, and politicians all resist public spending on research that would produce obvious benefits for everyone." --Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs " Unhealthy Politics connects the dots in the complex relationships among physicians, medical societies, the public, and politicians." --Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Health Affairs "A remarkable example of the contribution that political science has to make to discussions of policy problems that have chiefly concerned other fields. Patashnik, Gerber, and Dowling bring to bear not only a wealth of original survey evidence . but also a wealth of theoretical insights from the policy process and legislative politics literatures." --Jake Haselswerdt, Journal of Politics.