THE MILBANK QUARTERLY
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF
POPULATION HEALTH and Health Policy
POPULATION HEALTH and Health Policy
Law and Health: Some Current Challenges
(pages 1–2)
Kenneth F. Clute
The Defensive Practice of Medicine: Myth or Reality
(pages 2–3)
Nathan Hershey
The Social Control of Medical Practice: Licensure versus Output Monitoring
(pages 3–4)
Laurence R. Tancredi; John Woods
Review: Doctors and Doctrines: The Ideology of Medical Care in Canada by Bernard R. Blishen
(pages 4–5)
Merrijoy Kelner
Review: Growth of the Black Population: A Study of Demographic Trends by Reynolds Farley
(pages 5–6)
Joseph S. Himes
Introduction
(pages 9–12)
Sol Sherry
Pregnancy, the Puerperium and the Steroid Contraceptive
(pages 15–23)
Daniel G. Seigel
Coagulation Assays in Detecting Thrombosis-Prone Patients on Oral Contraceptives
(pages 24–30)
Edward Genton
Endocrine Factors and Venous Thrombosis
(pages 31–45)
Nemat O. Borhani
Endocrine Factors and Risk of Venous Thrombosis
(pages 46–59)
Alfonse T. Masi
Surgical Conditions as Risk Factors in the Development of Venous Thrombosis
(pages 60–70)
David G. Freiman; Edwin W. Salzman
Genetic and Hematologic Factors in Venous Thrombosis
(pages 71–88)
Edmond A. Murphy; C. Lockard Conley
The Relation of Thromboembolic Disease to Cardiovascular Disease
(pages 89–104)
Lewis Kuller; Stanford Wessler
Possible Risk Factors in the Development of Venous Thrombosis: Gastrointestinal Disease, Infection and Dehydration
(pages 105–122)
D. L. Sackett; F. J. Kazmier
Venous Thrombosis in Relation to Cigarette Smoking Physical Activity and Seasonal Factors
(pages 123–157)
Manning Feinleib; Brian MacMahon; Charles A. Owen,
The Value of Clinical Criteria for Epidemiologic Diagnosis of Deep Venous Thrombosis
(pages 161–168)
Brendan H. Hicks
Blood Screening Methods for the Diagnosis of Venous Thrombosis
(pages 170–189)
Anthony P. Fletcher; Norma Alkjaersig; John R. O'Brien
Venous Thrombosis in Surgical Patients Diagnosed by Clinical and Doppler Ultrasound Techniques
(pages 190–195)
Bernard Sigel; Johannes Ipsen; W. Robert Felix,
Impedance Phlebography as a Tool for the Epidemiologic Study of Venous Thrombosis
(pages 196–205)
H. B. Wheeler
The I125-Labeled Fibrinogen Test and Phlebography in the Diagnosis of Deep Vein Thrombosis
(pages 206–229)
V. V. Kakkar
An Epidemiologic Survey of Hospitalized Cases of Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism in Young Women
(pages 233–243)
Federico G. Arthes
Epidemiologic Diagnostic Methods: Criteria for Assessment
(pages 244–248)
Walter W. Holland
An Epidemiologist's Conclusions
(pages 249–255)
Frederick H. Epstein
Summary
(pages 256–261)