Health-care professions, markets, and countervailing powers

Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 270-289

  Light, Donald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

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