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The Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop

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Identifier: 101584930X47
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Dates

  • Publication: January 1986

Extent

6 pages

Description

In this biographical portrait, Koop discussed the mounting health care costs and losses in productivity due to smoking and AIDS, the lack of focus on preventive medicine in the American system of health care, and his stance on abortion.

Language of Materials

English

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