Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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... physicians , the common people and the women in cities are more successful than men of science in treating certain diseases and on the excuses which physicians make for this ' , and the letter explaining ' Why a clever physician does ...
... physicians , the common people and the women in cities are more successful than men of science in treating certain diseases and on the excuses which physicians make for this ' , and the letter explaining ' Why a clever physician does ...
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... Physician and patient as a social system , in : New England Journal of Medicine , Vol . 212 , 1935 , pp . 819- 823 , was one of the first to suggest that the physician exonerates the sick from moral accountability for their illness ...
... Physician and patient as a social system , in : New England Journal of Medicine , Vol . 212 , 1935 , pp . 819- 823 , was one of the first to suggest that the physician exonerates the sick from moral accountability for their illness ...
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... physician is rare ; in the only picture I have located in which death treats the doctor as a colleague , he has taken an old man by one hand , while in the other he carries a glass of urine , and seems to be asking the physician to ...
... physician is rare ; in the only picture I have located in which death treats the doctor as a colleague , he has taken an old man by one hand , while in the other he carries a glass of urine , and seems to be asking the physician to ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
Copyright | |
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