An undesired necessity: The commodification of medical service in the interwar United States

Commodifying Everything: Relationships of the Market

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 97-118

  Tomes, Nancy ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315023601     Document Type: Chapter

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