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How Scientific Breakthroughs and Social Innovations Shape the Evolution of the Healthcare Sector

  • Boyer R
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-9053-1_5
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Abstract

The chapter argues that the conventional scientific determinism does not explain the long term evolution of health care systems. First the illness and the medical knowledge and techniques are socially constructed and historically determined. Second the methods for...

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Boyer, R. (2019). How Scientific Breakthroughs and Social Innovations Shape the Evolution of the Healthcare Sector (pp. 89–119). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9053-1_5

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