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Technology, American Democracy and Health Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1997

MICHAEL MORAN  and
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
MICHAEL MORAN
Affiliation:
Department of Government, University of Manchester
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
Affiliation:
Department of Government, University of Manchester
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Abstract

The importance of technological innovation in health care is due to the historical ascendancy of scientific medicine over other therapies. Scientific medicine in turn was strengthened through an alliance between professional elites and corporate interests. That alliance has been destabilized by developments in health care politics, by changes in industrial structures and by alterations in democratic politics. The medical goods industries remain powerful lobbies, but they operate in an increasingly competitive lobbying environment.

Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Political Science , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 573 - 594
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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