Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... engineering endeavor that has translated human survival from the performance of organisms into the result of technical manipulation . " Health , " after all , is simply an everyday word that is used to designate the intensity with which ...
... engineering endeavor that has translated human survival from the performance of organisms into the result of technical manipulation . " Health , " after all , is simply an everyday word that is used to designate the intensity with which ...
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... engineering.92 They indicate strategies for surgical , chemical , and behavioral intervention in the lives of sick people or people threatened with sickness . A fifth category of criticism rejects these objectives . Without ...
... engineering.92 They indicate strategies for surgical , chemical , and behavioral intervention in the lives of sick people or people threatened with sickness . A fifth category of criticism rejects these objectives . Without ...
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... engineering of industrial systems . The syndrome corre- sponding to nemesis is recognized , but its etiology is still sought in bad engineering compounded by self - serving management , whether under the control of Wall Street or of The ...
... engineering of industrial systems . The syndrome corre- sponding to nemesis is recognized , but its etiology is still sought in bad engineering compounded by self - serving management , whether under the control of Wall Street or of The ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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