Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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Page 53
... Health Service Act of 1946 established access to health- care resources for all those in need as a human right . The need was assumed to be finite and quantifiable , the ballot box the best place to decide the total budget for health ...
... Health Service Act of 1946 established access to health- care resources for all those in need as a human right . The need was assumed to be finite and quantifiable , the ballot box the best place to decide the total budget for health ...
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... health economics , " by means in their way almost as ruthless but generally held to be more acceptable - than the ability to pay . " 58 Until that time health ... Service in Britain has undergone a traumatic change , for complex economic and ...
... health economics , " by means in their way almost as ruthless but generally held to be more acceptable - than the ability to pay . " 58 Until that time health ... Service in Britain has undergone a traumatic change , for complex economic and ...
Page 54
... health economics , " by means in their way almost as ruthless but generally held to be more acceptable than the ability to pay . " 58 Until that time health ... Service in Britain has undergone a traumatic change , for complex economic and ...
... health economics , " by means in their way almost as ruthless but generally held to be more acceptable than the ability to pay . " 58 Until that time health ... Service in Britain has undergone a traumatic change , for complex economic and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
Copyright | |
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