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Letter: Healthy disbelief

Published 6 November 2013

From Dominic Kirkham

What is paradoxical, if not contradictory, in Derek Suchard’s hypothesis – that socialised healthcare undermines belief (19 October, p 30) – is that the history of social care has religious roots, yet seems to encourage the very secularisation that corrodes those roots.
Manchester, UK

Issue no. 2942 published 9 November 2013

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