ABSTRACT
Humpty Dumpty issues a sharp challenge to those who advocate constructive conversation about health, with which this book is concerned. The literature on health policy is vast. On offer are models of health services, economic theory, m anagem ent theory, disquisitions on ethical principles, social analyses, literally thousands of publications. In a globalised and electronically netw orked world, this literature has already generated its own particular language, a policy jargon replete with terms that look deceptively familiar, terms which will be m uch in evidence in w hat now follows, terms whose meanings require our closest attention.
