Records. Medical Economics-Medical Freedom Association (inclusive), 1919-1978.

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Records. Medical Economics-Medical Freedom Association (inclusive), 1919-1978.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials regarding MEDICAL ECONOMICS, a periodical published to advertise quackish patent medicines, 1924-1953; Medical Education and Research Foundation, which published a home health care magazine, 1978; Medical Executive Search Associates, a firm which proposed to secure physicians for hospitals and other employers, 1969-1971; and Medical Freedom Association, an anti-AMA and anti-medicine organization which opposed state boards of health, 1919-1922.

4 folders.

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