Deborah A. Stone

 Professor of Law
and
Social Policy
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Stone is a political scientist and holds a joint appointment with the Department of Politics. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a scholar of the welfare state and has written widely on social policy, especially on health and disability issues, as well as on the role of professions in contemporary democracy. She has written on the national health care system in Germany, AIDS , testing and insurance companies. Among the classes she has taught at Brandeis University is "Feminism, Law, and Social Policy."

 Dr. Stone is the author of The Limits of Professional Power, a study of health care in West Germany and the United States; The Disabled State, a theory about the social and legal meaning of disability; and Policy Paradox and Political Reason, an exploration of the ethical and political assumptions in policy analysis. She is a founder and senior editor of the journal, The American Prospect and has served as consultant to Office of Technology Assessment, Harvard University's Center for European Studies. Dr. Stone will be on leave from Brandeis University for 1997-98 and 1998-99.

 Her office phone number is: (617) 736-3838.

 Sources of above information:
http://www.brandeis.edu/heller/ateachingandresearch.html
http://www.brandeis.edu/heller/afacultyprofiles.html
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/politics/polfaculty.html