Medicine transformed: On access to healthcare
- ISBN-10
- 1473005639
- ISBN-13
- 9781473005631
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- The Open University
- Author
- The Open University
Description
This 15-hour free course explored inequalities in healthcare in the early twentieth century, in terms of both quality of care and access to services.
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- 2004-09-04
- 444 pages
- Paperback
- Manchester University Press
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