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From gentle persuasion to Thatcher's age of coercion
Author(s) -
Baines Darrin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1193
Subject(s) - persuasion , coercion (linguistics) , medicine , control (management) , social psychology , psychology , economics , management , linguistics , philosophy
In our series on the history of prescribing policy, Dr Darrin Baines traces how successive governments have attempted to curb drug costs. Here, he describes how earlier efforts to control costs using persuasion were gradually replaced by policies based on coercion.