Studies in social medicine Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers (Studies in Social Medicine)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1469622777
ISBN 13
9781469622774
Category
General, Nursing, Allied
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Publication Year
2016
Publisher
Pages
560
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Abstract
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular - and largely unexamined - idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time
Description
xviii, 538 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-518) and index
Number of Copies
1
