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The Force of Knowledge : Transformation in the Regulation of the Hospital Sector Recent transformations in the regulation of the hospital sector are analysed in accordance with a political model which attaches supreme importance to the «knowledges» to which the different protagonists lay claim and which they use strategically. In the light of the dynamics of these knowledges this analysis reveals the unpredictability of the new knowledges, a multiplication of the actors concerned, some of whom are not part of the administration, and finally the administration’s orientation towards a management perspective which nevertheless remains attached to the public service of hospital medicine.