Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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... morbidity . The fact that there are more doctors where certain diseases have become rare has little to do with their ability to control or eliminate them.12 It simply means that doctors deploy themselves as they like , more so than ...
... morbidity . The fact that there are more doctors where certain diseases have become rare has little to do with their ability to control or eliminate them.12 It simply means that doctors deploy themselves as they like , more so than ...
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... morbidity has simply been extended and is applied to situations which have nothing to do with morbidity in the strict sense but merely with the probability that morbidity may appear within a given time ... the patient who consults his ...
... morbidity has simply been extended and is applied to situations which have nothing to do with morbidity in the strict sense but merely with the probability that morbidity may appear within a given time ... the patient who consults his ...
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... morbid society that demands universal medicalization and a medical establishment that certifies universal morbidity.109 In a morbid society the belief prevails that defined and diagnosed ill health is infinitely preferable to any other ...
... morbid society that demands universal medicalization and a medical establishment that certifies universal morbidity.109 In a morbid society the belief prevails that defined and diagnosed ill health is infinitely preferable to any other ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
Copyright | |
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