Doctors in Canada : the changing world of medical practice

Doctors in Canada : the changing world of medical practice / Bernard Blishen.

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:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo : Published in association with Statistics Canada by University of Toronto Press, ©1991.
Series:	Heritage
Subjects:	Physicians > Canada. Physicians > Supply and demand > Canada. Physicians. Medicine > Canada. physicians. MEDICAL > Public Health. HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism. HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference. MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine. MEDICAL > Atlases. MEDICAL > Essays. MEDICAL > Family & General Practice. MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine. MEDICAL > Osteopathy. Medicine Physicians Physicians > Supply and demand Canada
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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.