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social contract
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social contract
Medical practice The implied understanding between physician and Pt that the former provides the best possible care in a truthful and timely fashion, in exchange for the latter's trust. See Doctor-patient relationship.


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Though the Bourbon reforms did not completely remove the influence of Hapsburg paternalism and the "quid pro quos" of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Iberian colonialism, in the end the social compacts that underlay colonial rule would be eroded, leading to political dissidence and, ultimately, the emergence of a modern republic.
9780804751780 The many meanings of poverty; colonialism, social compacts, and assistance in eighteenth-century Ecuador.
In the hands of the coalition the `tax debate' and the Wik debate stand in for the dissolution of all social compacts except one: that shaped by the dominance of rampaging money.
 
 
 
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