Divided loyalties in medicine: The ambivalence of occupational medical practice

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1986, Pages 789-796

  Walsh, Diana Chapman ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

company doctors; corporate occupational medicine

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN OCCUPATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; COST CONTROL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARDS; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; SOCIAL CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN OCCUPATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; CODES OF ETHICS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARDS; PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; SOCIAL CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); COST CONTROL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMAN; INVESTMENTS; MORALS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0022961903     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(86)90277-7     Document Type: Article

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