More than a matter of choice? Consumerism and the modernisation of health care

Social Policy Review 18: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 101-120

  Newman, Janet ^a   Vidler, Elizabeth ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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