Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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... diagnosis as well as preventative therapies.87 The development of automated multiphasic health testing is seen by some as a panacea . This assembly - line procedure of complex chemical and medical tests can be performed by non ...
... diagnosis as well as preventative therapies.87 The development of automated multiphasic health testing is seen by some as a panacea . This assembly - line procedure of complex chemical and medical tests can be performed by non ...
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... diagnosis transforms people who feel healthy into anxious patients.88 To begin with , there are serious risks associated with some diagnostic procedures . Cardiac catheterization , a test to determine if a patient suffers from ...
... diagnosis transforms people who feel healthy into anxious patients.88 To begin with , there are serious risks associated with some diagnostic procedures . Cardiac catheterization , a test to determine if a patient suffers from ...
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... diagnosed as suffering from real , substantive disease as a distinct entity . An over- industrialized society is ... Diagnosis transfers the reason for the individual's breakdown from the engineered environment to the organism which ...
... diagnosed as suffering from real , substantive disease as a distinct entity . An over- industrialized society is ... Diagnosis transfers the reason for the individual's breakdown from the engineered environment to the organism which ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
Copyright | |
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