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There is a growing concern among members of the health care system, as well as among the public, that the ultimate goal of medicine and health care cannot be simply the cure of disease and the forestalling of death. Several factors in the development of medicine, as well as in the panorama of health problems, have contributed to this concern.
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Nordenfelt, L. (1994). Introduction. In: Nordenfelt, L. (eds) Concepts and Measurement of Quality of Life in Health Care. European Studies in Philosophy of Medicine 1, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8344-2_1
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