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... conditions which have long been recognized as sickness , such as flu , rheumatism and many tropical diseases . It is even more true when the condition has only recently been put under medical control . Old age , for example , is not a ...
... conditions which have long been recognized as sickness , such as flu , rheumatism and many tropical diseases . It is even more true when the condition has only recently been put under medical control . Old age , for example , is not a ...
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... condition . Since the various ethical systems assumed , tacitly or explicitly , that this human condition was more or less given , once and for all , the range of human action was narrowly circumscribed . Nature was considered more or ...
... condition . Since the various ethical systems assumed , tacitly or explicitly , that this human condition was more or less given , once and for all , the range of human action was narrowly circumscribed . Nature was considered more or ...
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... condition . The loss of a normative ' human condition ' not only introduces a newness into the human act , but also a newness into the human attitude towards the framework in which a person acts . If this action is to remain human after ...
... condition . The loss of a normative ' human condition ' not only introduces a newness into the human act , but also a newness into the human attitude towards the framework in which a person acts . If this action is to remain human after ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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