FACTORS THAT CAN AFFECT CONSUMERS’ AND PHYSICIANS’ USE OF VACCINES Factors That Can Affect Consumers’ Vaccine-Seeking Behavior
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The demands of this poor public are not reasonable, but they are quite simple. lt dreads disease and desires to be protected against it. But it is poor and wants to be protected cheaply . . . What the public wants, therefore, is a cheap magic charm to prevent, and a cheap pill or potion to cure, all disease . . . Thus it was really the public and not the medical profession that took up uaccination with irresistible faith . . .
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تاریخ انتشار 1996