Fabricating ‘health consumers’ in health care politics

Consuming Health: The Commodification of Health Care

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 31-47

  Irvine, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

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EID: 85139654845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203482162-3     Document Type: Chapter

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