In trying to understand the cultural authority of medicine, an examination of the claims made about the nature and extent of medicine’s influence must be balanced by an assessment of the demands that it faces.¹ What do the people who receive the attention of medicine require from it? What do the people who pay for medicine—not necessarily the same as those who receive it—expect that it will do? This chapter investigates the changing place of the sick person within the historical shift from the welfarist provision of health care by various public or private forms of collective action...
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