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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 538 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469622798
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RA416 .R463 2016
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
part two: Free enterprise medicine : the 1940s to the 1960s: The fourth necessity ; The MDs are off their pedestal ; A big pill to swallow -- part three: A consumers' revolution? : the 1960s to the 1990s: The patient must prescribe for the doctor ; Get ready for a new breed of patients ; Shopping mall medicine ; Medicine-chest roulette ; Conclusion: The barbarians are at the gate.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 pedestal ; A big pill to swallow -- part three: A consumers' revolution? : the 1960s to the 1990s: The patient must prescribe for the doctor ; Get ready for a new breed of patients ; Shopping mall medicine ; Medicine-chest roulette ; Conclusion: The barbarians are at the gate.

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