TY - JOUR PY - 1978// TI - Successes of Prevention JO - Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly: health and society A1 - Fielding, Jonathan E. SP - 274 EP - 302 VL - 56 IS - 3 N2 -

Despite the intuitive-and historically persistent-appeal of preventive medical measures, latter-day skeptics find less cause for continued optimism. The failure of expectations is only partly a confusion of definitions. An examination of what is prevented, and by whom, suggests new professional as well as political strategies, and anticipates new dilemmas.

LA - SN - 0160-1997 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3349650 ID - ref1 ER -