by The Open University
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After studying this unit, you should be able to do the following:
describe the wide range of methods of promoting health, preventing disease and providing care that were available to patients of different social groups and classes;
be aware of the inequalities of services ? in terms of both quality of care and access to different services ? open to different social groups and classes;
assess the significance of the roles of central and local governments, the private sector and voluntary associations in providing medical services;
understand the concept of ‘medicalisation? and assess the degree of power doctors had over people's lives in the early twentieth century.
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