Paradigms and research programmes: is it
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Rhiannon Tudor Edwards
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract As an applied subdiscipline of economics, health economics has flourished, defining itself as the study of how scarce health care resources may be used to meet our needs. This evolutionary pathway has led to health economists adopting a very ‘medical’ model of health, in which the predo