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The problems in health care and the difficulties that society is experiencing in trying to resolve these problems have an unexpected partner: the power of ideology. Trostle’s (1988) definition of the concept of ideology as a system of shared beliefs is relevant to the health care debate, because ideology as understood in these terms is instrumental to the process of transforming power into authority. Furthermore, Trostle (1988) explained that these shared beliefs
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Verheijde, L.J. (2006). IDEOLOGY: THE SILENT PARTNER. In: Managing Care: A Shared Responsibility. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4185-3_03
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