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Doctors in Canada : the changing world of medical practice /

In this study Bernard Blishen identifies the social and political pressures on the medical profession and assesses how it has responded to them.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blishen, Bernard R.
Corporate Author: Statistics Canada
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : Published in association with Statistics Canada by University of Toronto Press, ©1991.
Subjects:
Physicians > Canada.
Physicians > Supply and demand > Canada.
Physicians.
Medicine > Canada.
Clinical Medicine > trends
Physicians
physicians.
Canada
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781442632141
1442632143
9781442633827
1442633824
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The development of medical ascendancy
  • Factors affecting physician demand and supply
  • The socio-economic background of physicians
  • The education of the physician
  • Other health professions and occupations
  • Sources of collegial control
  • The development of third-party intervention
  • The emergence of communal control
  • Conclusions : the changing world of medicine and medical practice.

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