Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1904

Marginal penciling on page 9, John M. Clark, “Economic Means — To What Ends: A Problem in the Teaching of Economics,” The Hazen Pamphlets No. 28, reprinted from College Teaching and Christian Values, Committee on Undergraduate Teaching of Economics, American Economic Association Press, 1951

Original is in item 1903.

 

 

/Clark:  “The span of life has increased wonderfully, and many diseases have lost the terror they had for our fathers. On examination, the most significant thing here is that health is not, in the main, in the hands of business institutions but of a group of professions. The most definitely commercial branch of health service   — the proprietary medicine industry  —  is the least satisfactory sector.”

 

 

Health depends on maintenance, on food, not on doctors.

 

/On page 8, in answer to Clark’s questions, “What do we want of our economic system? What are we getting from it?,” Heath penciled, “Life, full and long.” The economic system provides the food on which health basically depends./

 (Heath’s words approximated

      by Spencer MacCallum)