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The price of medical heroics

  • The Politics Of Sickness
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  1. Boston College, USA

    Jeanne Guillemin (associate professor of sociology recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship)

  2. the Hastings Center Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, USA

    Jeanne Guillemin (associate professor of sociology recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship)

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She is the editor of Anthropological Realities: Readings in the Science of Culture,published by Transaction Books.

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Guillemin, J. The price of medical heroics. Society 19, 31–38 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02712906

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