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One cannot possibly imagine present-day health care without pharmaceuticals. There are at least three reasons for this statement. (1) Pharmaceuticals represent a form of therapy that does not involve injuring or removing organs while permitting causal treatment (not only aimed at alleviating symptoms) in several instances. Chemotherapy, employed in the treatment of tuberculosis, is the historic example of such causal treatment; vaccination against the AIDS virus may become a future example.
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Zweifel, P., Breyer, F., Kifmann, M. (2009). The Market for Pharmaceuticals. In: Health Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68540-1_12
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