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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828014803321

Autore

Blishen Bernard R.

Titolo

Doctors & doctrines : the ideology of medical care in Canada / / Bernard R. Blishen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Toronto, Ontario] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1969

©1969

ISBN

1-4426-3383-2

1-4426-3215-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

362.1/0971

Soggetti

Medical care - Canada

Physicians - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- Some theoretical assumptions -- Medical education -- The organization of practice -- The hospital -- The self-governing profession -- The development of medical care insurance programmes -- Government medical care insurance -- The foundations of ideology -- The content of the ideology of medical care -- Ideological consensus -- Appendixes.

Sommario/riassunto

Professor Blishen here examines the position of the medical profession in the debate in Canada over the various developments in insurance for medical care as part of an ideological reaction to a rapidly changing society.