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So far in this book we have discussed surgeons, engineers and companies, and in the next chapter we will discuss patients. Much of this present chapter will be about governments. We will look at the health services of the UK and the US, and the different ways in which THRs existed in those systems. We then turn to discuss issues of quality regulations, from the industrial standards which applied to the materials of hips, through questions of professional assessments, to national registers of hips inserted, or the lack thereof.
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Anderson, J., Neary, F., Pickstone, J.V. (2007). Hips, Health Services and Quality. In: Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients. Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596238_6
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