Mechanic David

Mechanic D. Students Under Stress: A Study in the Social Psychology of Adaptation. New York: The Free Press, 231 pp. 1962.

Latane H. A., Mechanic D., Strauss G., Strother G. B. The Social Science of Organizations: Four Perspectives. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Section on "Some Considerations in the Methodology of Organizational Studies," 137-182, 1963.

Mechanic D. Medical Sociology: A Selective View. New York: The Free Press, 504 pp. 1968.

Mechanic D. Medical Sociology (second edition). New York: The Free Press, 597 pp. 1978.

Mechanic D. Mental Health and Social Policy. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 171 pp. 1969. (German translation, Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munchen-Berlin-Wien, 1975.)

Mechanic D. Mental Health and Social Policy (second edition). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice- Hall, 236 pp. 1980.

Mechanic D. Mental Health and Social Policy (third edition). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice- Hall, 1989.

Mechanic D. Mental Health and Social Policy: The Emergence of Managed Care (fourth edition). Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

Mechanic D. Public Expectations and Health Care: Essays on the Changing Organization of Health Services. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 314 pp. 1972.

Mechanic D. Politics, Medicine, and Social Science. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 306 pp. 1974.

Mechanic D. The Growth of Bureaucratic Medicine: An Inquiry into the Dynamics of Patient Behavior and the Organization of Medical Care. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 345 pp. 1976.

Lewis Ch. E., Rashi F., Mechanic D. A Right to Health: The Problem of Access to Primary Medical Care. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 367 pp. 1976. (Japanese translation, Tokyo: Iryo Tosho Suppan, Sha, 1979.)

Mechanic D. Future Issues in Health Care: Social Policy and the Rationing of Medical Services. New York: The Free Press, 194 pp. 1979.

Mechanic D. Readings in Medical Sociology. New York: The Free Press, 1980. (Edited readings with introduction and annotations.)

Mechanic D. (Ed.). Symptoms, Illness Behavior, and Help-Seeking. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1982.

Hauser R., Mechanic D., Haller A.,  Hauser T. (Eds). Social Structure and Personality: Papers in Honor of William Hamilton Sewell. New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1982.

Mechanic D. (Ed.). Handbook of Health, Health Care, and the Health Professions. New York: The Free Press, 1983.

Aiken L., Mechanic D. (Eds.). Applications of Social Science to Clinical Medicine and Health Policy. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Mechanic D. From Advocacy to Allocation: The Evolving American Health Care System. New York: The Free Press, 238 pp. 1986.

Osterweis M., Kleinman A. and  Mechanic D. (Eds.). Pain and Disability: Clinical, Behavioral, and Public Policy Perspectives. Washington, D.C. Committee on Pain, Disability, and Chronic Illness Behavior, Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, 1987.

Mechanic D.(Ed.). Improving Mental Health Services: What the Social Sciences Can Tell Us. New Directions Series, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Winter, MHS H36, MHS, 1987.

Mechanic D. Painful Choices in Health Care - Research and Essays on the Sociology of Health Care, New Brunswick: Transactions Publishers, 1989.

Mechanic D. and Linda Aiken (Eds.). Paying for Services: Promises and Pitfalls of Capitation. New Directions Series, MHS #43. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, Fall 1989.

Taube C., Mechanic D., Hohmann A.(Eds). The Future of Mental Health Services Research, DHHS Pub. No. (ADM) 89-1600. Washington, D.C.: Supt. of Docs., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.

Mechanic D. Inescapable Decisions: The Imperatives of Health Reform. New Brunswick: Transactions Publishers, 1994.

Mechanic D. (Ed.). Improving Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment in an Era of Managed Care. New Directions in Mental Health Services Series, 73. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1997.

Mechanic D. (Ed.). Managed Behavioral Health Care: Current Realities and Future Potential. New Directions in Mental Health Services, No. 78. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1998.

Mechanic D., Rogut L., Colby D.,  Knickman J. (Eds.). Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005.