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The Hegemony of Money: Commercialism and Professionalism in American Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2007

LARRY R. CHURCHILL
Affiliation:
Center for Clinical and Research Ethics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Extract

Money plays a powerful role in modern medicine, both in terms of how health services are organized and delivered and increasingly in how physicians understand themselves and their work. The phrase “the hegemony of money” is intended to capture that power.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: COMMERCIALISM IN MEDICINE
Copyright
© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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