Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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... become medically irreversible . The unwanted physiological , social and psychological by - products of diagnostic and therapeutic progress have become resistant to medical remedies . New devices , ap- proaches and organizational ...
... become medically irreversible . The unwanted physiological , social and psychological by - products of diagnostic and therapeutic progress have become resistant to medical remedies . New devices , ap- proaches and organizational ...
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... become inadequate for describing what happens in a medical system that claims authority over people who are not yet ill , people who cannot reasonably expect to get well , and those for whom doctors have no more effective treatment than ...
... become inadequate for describing what happens in a medical system that claims authority over people who are not yet ill , people who cannot reasonably expect to get well , and those for whom doctors have no more effective treatment than ...
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... become more certain than immortality , more just than king , pope , or even God . Rather than life's aim , it has become the end of life . The finality , immanence and intimacy of personal death was not only part of the new sense of ...
... become more certain than immortality , more just than king , pope , or even God . Rather than life's aim , it has become the end of life . The finality , immanence and intimacy of personal death was not only part of the new sense of ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
Copyright | |
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