Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients Into Consumers by Nancy Tomes

Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients Into Consumers

Nancy Tomes

560 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced

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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 con...

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