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Whose Benefit?

by Marcia Angell December 19, 2001

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Marcia Angell

Marcia Angell, M.D. is a senior lecturer on social medicine at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. More by Marcia Angell

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