Volume 79 Number 3, 2001

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• Editor's Introduction: In This Issue

• Public Roles for the Medical Profession in the United States: Beyond Theories of Decline and Fall
  Rosemary A. Stevens
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• Do Not Delay: Breast Cancer and Time, 1900-1970
  Robert A. Aronowitz

• The Utility of Social Capital in Research on Health Determinants
  James Macinko and Barbara Starfield

• Evidence-based Management: From Theory to Practice in Health Care
  Kieran Walshe and Thomas G. Rundall

• Lessons from the Unexpected: The Importance of Data Infrastructure, Conceptual Models, and Serendipity in Health Services Research
  David Mechanic

• Notes on Contributors