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Part I. Framing Medical Malpractice as a Health Policy Issue: 1. Themedical malpractice system: structure and performance Michelle M. Mello andDavid M. Studdert; 2. Malpractice reform as a health policy problem WilliamM. Sage; 3. Medical malpractice and the new politics of health care RoganKersh; Part II. The Health Policy Impact of Medical Malpractice: 4. Who payswhen malpractice premiums rise? Mark V. Pauly; 5. The effects of the USmalpractice system on the cost and quality of care David J. Becker and DanielP. Kessler; 6. Liability, patient safety, and defensive medicine: what doesthe future hold? Troyen A. Brennan, Michelle M. Mello and David M. Studdert;7. Medical liability and the culture of technology Peter D. Jacobson; PartIII. Malpractice Reforms that Solve the Right Problems: 8. Promoting fairnessin the medical malpractice system Maxwell J. Mehlman; 9. Caps and theconstruction of damages in medical malpractice cases Catherine M. Sharkey;10. Expertise and the legal process Catherine T. Struve; 11. Disclosure andfair resolution of adverse events Carol B. Liebman and Chris Stern Hyman;Part IV. In Search of a 'New Paradigm': 12. Enterprise liability in the 21stcentury Randall R. Bovbjerg and Robert Berenson; 13. Private contractualalternatives to malpractice liability Jennifer Arlen; 14. Medical malpracticeinsurance reform: 'enterprise insurance' and some alternatives Tom Baker; 15.Governments as insurers in professional and hospital liability insurancemarkets Frank A. Sloan and Charles E. Eesley; 16. Medicare-led malpracticereform Eleanor Kinney and William Sage.