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Kaaren Mathias, Associate professor in public health and social justice, University of Canterbury When people with lived experience contribute to the design and delivery of health care and research, ...

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The same market logics that defined the Gilded Age of the early 20th century have quietly returned in our own century, with devastating consequences.

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