Economic aspects of the field of medicine, the medical profession, and health care. It includes the economic and financial impact of disease in general on the patient, the physician, society, or government.
    

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The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

Medical economics

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The prevalence and economic impact of migraine / Managing Migraine.

The costs of medical care / Office of Health Economics.

Valuing health : well-being, freedom, and suffering / Daniel M. Hausman.

Rockefeller medicine men : medicine and capitalism in America / E. Richard Brown.

Reference data on the profile of medical practice / compiled and edited by Robert J. Walsh, Phil Aherne, and George A. Ryan.