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Remaking the American patient : how Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumer...

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Remaking the American patient : how Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumer...

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Remaking the American patient : how Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers / Nancy Tomes.

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Full title

Remaking the American patient : how Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers / Nancy Tomes.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Call Numbers

G 2017/2184

Record Identifier

74VKVaKorNQX

MMS ID

991024100911602626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

xviii, 538 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

part one: The hazards of free choices : the 1920s to the 1940s: Farewell to the free trade in doctoring ; The high cost of keeping alive ; The new corner store ; The guinea pigs' revolt -- part two: Free enterprise medicine : the 1940s to the 1960s: The fourth necessity ; The MDs are off their pedes...

Publication information

Publisher

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Place of Publication

North Carolina

Date Published

[2016]

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Full title

Remaking the American patient : how Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers / Nancy Tomes.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Studies in social medicine

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-518) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

©2016

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2017/2184

Record Identifier

74VKVaKorNQX

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaKorNQX

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ISBN

9781469622774 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

1469622777 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

DDC

368.38200973

MMS ID

991024100911602626

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