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... American Medical Association , 1971 ) . For orientation on current , mostly U.S. , materials on medical economics ranging from research reports to articles in Time magazine , see American Medical Association , Medical Socioeconomic ...
... American Medical Association , 1971 ) . For orientation on current , mostly U.S. , materials on medical economics ranging from research reports to articles in Time magazine , see American Medical Association , Medical Socioeconomic ...
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... American Medical and Pharma- ceutical Associations , 77 as well as the new rise of union power in the health sector , 78 are all formidable obstacles to a distribution of resources in the interests of the sick rather than of their self ...
... American Medical and Pharma- ceutical Associations , 77 as well as the new rise of union power in the health sector , 78 are all formidable obstacles to a distribution of resources in the interests of the sick rather than of their self ...
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... American Medical Association have steadily in- creased , doubling in the last fifteen years : half the practicing American physicians are specialists in one of sixty categories , and the proportion is expected to increase to 55 percent ...
... American Medical Association have steadily in- creased , doubling in the last fifteen years : half the practicing American physicians are specialists in one of sixty categories , and the proportion is expected to increase to 55 percent ...
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The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 31 |
Introduction | 121 |
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