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Remaking the American Patient
Nancy Tomes
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In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular - and largely unexamined - idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time. Series: Studies in Social Medicine. Num Pages: 560 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; MBP; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 242 x 43. Weight in Grams: 944.
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time. Tracing the robust development of advertising, marketing, and public relations within the medical profession and the vast realm we now think of as ""health care,"" Tomes considers what it means to be a ""good"" patient. As she shows, this history of the coevolution of medicine and consumer ... Read more
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time. Tracing the robust development of advertising, marketing, and public relations within the medical profession and the vast realm we now think of as ""health care,"" Tomes considers what it means to be a ""good"" patient. As she shows, this history of the coevolution of medicine and consumer ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Social Medicine
Number of Pages
560
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469622774
SKU
V9781469622774
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About Nancy Tomes
Nancy Tomes is professor of history at Stony Brook University, USA and author of The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.
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