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The Medical Profession and the State in France*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Monika Steffen
Monika Steffen
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Political Science, CERAT, Grenole
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Abstract

French medicine is organised with dialectical relation between the public and private in health and welfare policy; there is also an ideological impact of public/private confrontation. The article retraces the history of the profession and shows how it was set up both with and against the state, emphasising two ideas at once: the idea of the small independent entrepreneur, guarantor of individual liberty, and the idea of the great state servant, guarantor of the public interest. Public/private confrontation is only rhetorical and bears no relation to the real content of the dualistic health system.

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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 189 - 208
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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