Challenges to medicine: The case of prescribing

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 297-327

  Weiss, Marjorie ^a   Fitzpatrick, Ray ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Consumerism; Deprofessionalisation; General practitioners; Prescribing; Professionalisation; Proletarianisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031524845     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.1997.tb00021.x     Document Type: Article

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