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Joe Sharkey is an American author and columnist for the ''New York Times.'' His columns focus mostly on business travel, while his non-fiction books focus on criminality. Sharkey also co-authored a novel. He has been the Assistant National Editor for the ''Wall Street Journal'', the City Editor for the ''Albany Times-Union'', and a columnist for ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. Formally residing in the New York area, he and his wife live in Tucson, Arizona. ==Books== Sharkey's 1994 book ''Bedlam: Greed, Profiteering, and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy'' is an investigation of the psychiatric industry. Focusing on sensational cases in the United States, Sharkey exposed how powerful elements within the industry maneuvered to exploit new markets when health insurance providers began covering costs for in-hospital mental health treatment. He traces soaring mental health costs to the often criminal marketing practices of biological psychiatry, which Sharkey asserts began when the number of psychiatric hospitals boomed in the late 1980s. He provides anecdotal tales of people coerced into treatment on fabricated pretenses, and compares schemes to fill beds at for-profit mental and addiction facilities, which were offering bounties to clergy, teachers, police and "crisis counselors," to the business plan of the Holiday Inn hotel chain. The psychiatric industry, warned Sharkey (whose late father-in-law was a respected psychiatrist involved in setting up non-profit mental health clinics during the 1980s in New York state) has been lobbying legislatures for an increasing share of government health spending. Despite such warnings by Sharkey and mental health watchdogs, similar practices have continued to evolve in Texas (where many of the events depicted in ''Bedlam'' took place), in the form of the Texas Medication Algorithm Project, and at the federal level with the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Another of Sharkey's books is ''Above Suspicion'', the story of FBI agent Mark Putnam, who murdered his mistress in an eastern Kentucky mining town. In ''Suspicion'', Sharkey implicitly condemns the FBI for encouraging the use of paid informants. "Above Suspicion" has been optioned by Reese Witherspoon's Type A Productions to be made into a feature film. His book ''Deadly Greed'' explores the sensational 1989 Boston killing, in which Charles Stuart fatally shot his pregnant wife Carol and caused racial tensions by accusing a black man of the crime. Sharkey has also co-authored a novel, ''Lady Gold,'' with former New York Police Department detective Angela Amato. The movie rights for the book were purchased by Paramount Pictures and was in development by Mel Gibson's production company, Icon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joe Sharkey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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