Consumed by prestige: the mouth, consumerism and the dental profession
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Summary
The dental profession should not welcome the association of the mouth as a status and prestige symbol lightly; this article examines how this paradigm shift might impact upon the social contract and dentistry’s professional status.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2019-09-19
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 43
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W2973432232
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:202703282
Keywords
Consumerism, Medical law, Prestige, Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of medicine
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