What’s wrong with medical consumerism?

Consuming Health: The Commodification of Health Care

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 13-30

  Frank, Arthur W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 85139661756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203482162-2     Document Type: Chapter

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