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... major areas as well . A professional and physician - based health care system which has grown beyond tolerable bounds is sickening for three reasons : it must produce clinical damages which outweigh its potential benefits ; it cannot ...
... major areas as well . A professional and physician - based health care system which has grown beyond tolerable bounds is sickening for three reasons : it must produce clinical damages which outweigh its potential benefits ; it cannot ...
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... major hospitals rose even faster : it tripled in eight years . Again , administrative expenses grew fastest , multiplying since 1964 by a factor of seven , laboratory costs by a factor of five . 59 Building a hospital bed now costs in ...
... major hospitals rose even faster : it tripled in eight years . Again , administrative expenses grew fastest , multiplying since 1964 by a factor of seven , laboratory costs by a factor of five . 59 Building a hospital bed now costs in ...
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... major step would be taken to recog- nize the need for analogous reversals in other major indus- trial sectors . And since medicine is a sacred cow , its slaughter would have a ' vibration effect ' : people who can face suffering and ...
... major step would be taken to recog- nize the need for analogous reversals in other major indus- trial sectors . And since medicine is a sacred cow , its slaughter would have a ' vibration effect ' : people who can face suffering and ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
Copyright | |
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