Medicine and Society
Dec 2007
Dorothy Porter, PhD
The social institutions of medicine and the state have a complex history of interaction in which doctors have been the originators of political ideals, goals, and social change but equally often have found themselves to be instruments of political authority.
Virtual Mentor. 2007; 9(12):832-837. doi:
10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.12.msoc1-0712.