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... clinical iatrogenic disease comprises all clinical conditions for which remedies , physicians or hospitals are the pathogens or ' sickening ' agents . I will call this plethora of therapeutic side - effects clinical iatrogenesis . 26 ...
... clinical iatrogenic disease comprises all clinical conditions for which remedies , physicians or hospitals are the pathogens or ' sickening ' agents . I will call this plethora of therapeutic side - effects clinical iatrogenesis . 26 ...
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... clinical entity represents an event in medicine that corresponds to the achievement of Copernicus in astronomy : man was catapulted and estranged from the centre of his universe . Three centuries of preparation were required before this ...
... clinical entity represents an event in medicine that corresponds to the achievement of Copernicus in astronomy : man was catapulted and estranged from the centre of his universe . Three centuries of preparation were required before this ...
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... clinical condition soon became a peremptory demand for access to a natural death . Lifelong institutional medical care had become a service that society owed all its members . ' Natural death ' now appeared in dictionaries . One major ...
... clinical condition soon became a peremptory demand for access to a natural death . Lifelong institutional medical care had become a service that society owed all its members . ' Natural death ' now appeared in dictionaries . One major ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
Copyright | |
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