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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors and Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Gender, Sex, and American Political Life -- Part One. Political Behavior -- 2. Gender and Political Knowledge -- 3. Gender and Political Participation -- 4. A Tougher Road for Women? Assessing the Role of Gender in Congressional Elections -- 5. Are Moral Voices Gendered? Care, Rights, and Autonomy in Reproductive Decision Making -- Part Two. Public Policy

Atul Gawande is a surgeon who began creating vivid word paintings of the performance of
the American health care system in The New Yorker's pages while he was
still a resident. Those of us who are immersed in, and charged with measuring, that
system—as I have been for the last decade—find his "Annals of Medicine" column's evocations
of heroic system successes and frightening system failures true to the processes we more
prosaically try to analyze and evaluate. In December 2007 Gawande published a New
Yorker essay called "The Checklist," followed just days later by an op-ed piece in
the New York Times (Gawande 2007a; 2007b).