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History and health policy in the United States : putting the past back in /

In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stevens, Rosemary, 1935-, Rosenberg, Charles E., Burns, Lawton R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
Colección:Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry great weight. Even in swiftly developing fields such as health and medicine, most systems and policies embody a sequence of earlier ideas and preexisting patterns. In History and Health Policy in the United States, seventeen leading scholars of history, the history of medicine, bioethics.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 364 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813539874
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