Remaking the American patient : how Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers / Nancy Tomes.
Series: Studies in social medicinePublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]Description: xviii, 538 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781469622774 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 368.38/200973 23
- RA412.3
- W 84 AA1
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Farewell to the free trade in doctoring -- The high cost of keeping alive -- The new corner store -- The guinea pigs' revolt -- The fourth necessity -- The MDs are off their pedestal -- A big pill to swallow -- The patient must prescribe for the doctor -- Get ready for a new breed of patients -- Shopping mall medicine -- Medicine-chest roulette.
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