Volume 80 Number 1, 2002

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• Editor's Introduction: In This Issue

• Pluralism, Public Choice, and the State in the Emerging Paradigm in Health Systems
  Dov Chernichovsky

• Not Afraid to Blame: The Neglected Role of Blame Attribution in Medical Consumerism and Some Implications for Health Policy
  Marsha Rosenthal and Mark Schlesinger

• Performance-Based Contracting in Wisconsin Public Health: Transforming State-Local Relations
  John Chapin and Bruce Fetter
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• Examining the Role of Health Services Research in Public Policymaking
  John N. Lavis, Suzanne E. Ross, Jeremiah E. Hurley, Joanne M. Hohenadel, Gregory L. Stoddart, Christel A. Woodward, and Julia Abelson

• Extending Life: Scientific Prospects and Political Obstacles
  Richard A. Miller

• Notes on Contributors