Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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Page 15
... medicine.3 In addition , an expanding proportion of the new disease burden of the last 15 years is itself the result of medical intervention in favour of 1 Perinatal mortality must be excluded . In all European countries it exceeds all ...
... medicine.3 In addition , an expanding proportion of the new disease burden of the last 15 years is itself the result of medical intervention in favour of 1 Perinatal mortality must be excluded . In all European countries it exceeds all ...
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... medical intervention in combating non- infectious diseases is even more questionable . Effective progress has indeed been demonstrated in a few conditions : the partial prevention of caries through fluoridation of water is possible ...
... medical intervention in combating non- infectious diseases is even more questionable . Effective progress has indeed been demonstrated in a few conditions : the partial prevention of caries through fluoridation of water is possible ...
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... medical enterprise inflicts on society . The impact of medicine constitutes one of the most rapidly expanding epidemics of our time . The pain , dysfunction , disability and even anguish 24 which result from technical medical intervention ...
... medical enterprise inflicts on society . The impact of medicine constitutes one of the most rapidly expanding epidemics of our time . The pain , dysfunction , disability and even anguish 24 which result from technical medical intervention ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
Copyright | |
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