Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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... hospital care . The cost of keeping a patient for one day in a community hospital in the U.S. has risen 500 % since 1950. The bill for patient care in major hospitals rose even faster : it tripled in eight years . Again , administrative ...
... hospital care . The cost of keeping a patient for one day in a community hospital in the U.S. has risen 500 % since 1950. The bill for patient care in major hospitals rose even faster : it tripled in eight years . Again , administrative ...
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... hospital , and in a crisis would rather be close to people they know . Careful statistical findings have confirmed their intuition.96 Some patients in these units understandably suffer acute psychoses . Public fascination with ' medical ...
... hospital , and in a crisis would rather be close to people they know . Careful statistical findings have confirmed their intuition.96 Some patients in these units understandably suffer acute psychoses . Public fascination with ' medical ...
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... hospital soup ; the nuns could get along on a pittance . Like prisons , hospitals were considered a last resort : nobody thought of them as tools for administering therapy to improve the inmates . 188 Logically , the Montagnards went ...
... hospital soup ; the nuns could get along on a pittance . Like prisons , hospitals were considered a last resort : nobody thought of them as tools for administering therapy to improve the inmates . 188 Logically , the Montagnards went ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
Copyright | |
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