TROYEN A. BRENNAN is professor of Law and Public Health and professor of Medicine at Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State (1991). DONALD M. BERWICK is president and CEO of the Institute for Health Care Improvement in Boston. He is coauthor (with B. Godfrey and J. Roessner) of the best-selling Curing Health Care (Jossey-Bass, 1990).

"Brennen and Berwick's diagnosis and prescription for changes should be considered by every person who writes a rule, seeks compliance with a rule, or depAnds on a rule to obtain bood or better quality health care." --Paul Batalaen, M.D., director of Health Care Improvement Leadership Development, Dartmouth Medical School "In their timely, well-written and thought-provoking book New Rules: Regulation, Markets, and the Quality of American Health Care, Brennan and Berwick develop a framework and guidelines for considering the types of regulations that will best support improved health care delivery in the United States." --Michael Schwartz, International Journal for Quality in Health Care

• 1. The Role of Regulation2. The Regulatory Landscape Through the Early 1970s3. The History of Research on Health Care Quality4. The Evolution of Health Care and Its Regulation5. The Federalization of Health Care Oversight: Implications for Quality6. Regulation and Quality Improvement in Health Care Today7. Regulating for Improvement: A Prescription