1. Editor’s Note: Understanding Medical Liability—Mark A. Peterson

2. Defensive Medicine and Tort Reform: New Evidence in an Old Bottle—Randall R. Bovbjerg, Lisa C. Dubay, Genevieve M. Kenney, and Stephen A. Norton

3. The Quinlan Case Revisited—Joel Frader

4. Books Received

5. News and Notes—David Warren

6. News from Affiliated Organizations

7. Contributors

8. Measuring Defensive Medicine Using Clinical Scenario Surveys—David Klingman, Judith L. Wagner, Philip T. Polishuk, Leah Wolfe, Jacqueline A. Corrigan, A. Russell Localio, and Jeremy Sugarman

9. Physicians’ Personal Malpractice Experiences Are Not Related to Defensive Clinical Practices—Peter A. Glassman, John E. Rolph, Laura P. Petersen, Melissa A. Bradley, and Richard L. Kravitz

10. The Use of Low-Osmolar Contrast Agents: Technological Change and Defensive Medicine—Peter D. Jacobson and C. John Rosenquist

11. Medical Practice Guidelines in Malpractice Litigation: An Early Retrospective—Andrew L. Hyams, David W. Shapiro, and Troyen A. Brennan

12. Medical Malpractice in Michigan: An Economic Analysis—Stephen J. Spurr and Walter O. Simmons

13. The Quinlan Case Revisited: A History of the Cultural Politics of Medicine and the Law—M. L. Tina Stevens

14. Risk, Science, and Politics: Regulating Toxic Substances in Canada and the United States—Barry G. Rabe

15. Managing Medical Staff Change through Bylaws and Other Strategies—Amy L. Woodhall

16. HMOs and the Elderly—John Capitman

Randall R. Bovbjerg

John Capitman

Joel Frader

Peter A. Glassman

Andrew L. Hyams

Peter D. Jacobson

David Klingman

Barry G. Rabe

Stephen J. Spurr

M. L. Tina Stevens

David G. Warren

Amy L. Woodhall

Lisa C. Dubay

John E. Rolph

C. John Rosenquist

David W. Shapiro

Walter O. Simmons

Judith L. Wagner

Troyen A. Brennan

Genevieve M. Kenney

Laura P. Petersen

Philip T. Polishuk

Melissa A. Bradley

Stephen A. Norton

Leah Wolfe

Jacqueline A. Corrigan

Richard L. Kravitz

A. Russell Localio

Jeremy Sugarman

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