“A Medical Utopia”

Year for Search
1923
Secondary Title
The Hospital and Health Review 
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Brief report on Dr. J. Walter Carr’s (b. 1862) oration at the Medical Society of London. The oration probably had the title “From Cradle to Crematorium” and depicts a dystopia in which a socialist government functioning as a “medical autocracy” sets the rules governing health care in ways that severely restrict freedom. He concluded that it would be better to be free than healthy. At the time Carr was a consulting physician at the Royal Free Hospital.

Volume / Edition
2.21
Pagination
230
Published Date

June 1923

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1923 “A Medical Utopia.” The Hospital and Health Review 2.21 (June 1923): 230.

Brief report on Dr. J. Walter Carr’s (b. 1862) oration at the Medical Society of London. The oration probably had the title “From Cradle to Crematorium” and depicts a dystopia in which a socialist government functioning as a “medical autocracy” sets the rules governing health care in ways that severely restrict freedom. He concluded that it would be better to be free than healthy. At the time Carr was a consulting physician at the Royal Free Hospital.

Author Note

At the time Carr (b. 1862) was a consulting physician at the Royal Free Hospital.

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