Remaking a trustworthy medical profession in twenty-first-century Britain?

The New Sociology of the Health Service

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 17-36

  Elston, Mary Ann ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80955171371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203879740     Document Type: Chapter

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