COMMENTS ON NAVARRO REVIEW OF HEALTH-SERVICES RESEARCH - AN ANTHOLOGY

In preparing Health Services Research: An Anthology, the editors attem pted to broaden the definition of health services research promulgated by the National Library of Medicine. Many articles in the Anthology f ocused on stemming the avalanche of medicine's unevaluated procedures and prescribing practices, and on broadening the horizons of the medic al establishment. Another anthology is clearly needed to address Virch ow's dictum that medicine is politics writ large.