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Health Economics Radio 3
Jim Riley
28th July 2009
Following the daily dose of proms on Radio 3 this week at 11pm The Essay is considering the economic and social issues associated with the NHS. For those of you considering applying for PPE in September this mini series is well worth a listen.
To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service in 1949, Prof Jonathan Wolff asks whether health really is an intrinsic good and can be measured and quantified as well as charting changing definitions of sickness and health, from Descartes to RD Laing.