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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weiss, Lawrence David.

Private medicine and public health: profit, politics, and
prejudice in the American health care enterprise/ Lawrence D.
Weiss.

p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8133-3350-4 (hc.)--ISBN 0-8133-3351-2 (pbk.)
1. Medical policy--United States. 2 Medical economics--United

States. I. Title.
RA395.A3W445 1997
362.1′0973--dc21 96-40916
CIP

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