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Page 62
... production . The training of a Peruvian physician costs about six thousand times the median amount spent on the education of a Peruvian peasant . Once that much has been spent on one man's education , his knowledge capital will be ...
... production . The training of a Peruvian physician costs about six thousand times the median amount spent on the education of a Peruvian peasant . Once that much has been spent on one man's education , his knowledge capital will be ...
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... production , the gap between expectations and gratification tends to be narrow and stable . Learning , locomotion or sick care are the results of highly decentralized initiatives , of autonomous inputs and self- limiting total outputs ...
... production , the gap between expectations and gratification tends to be narrow and stable . Learning , locomotion or sick care are the results of highly decentralized initiatives , of autonomous inputs and self- limiting total outputs ...
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... production . After all , the effectiveness of these taboos had been tied to the values of a particular society and its mode of production , and it is precisely these that have been irrevocably lost in the process of industrialization ...
... production . After all , the effectiveness of these taboos had been tied to the values of a particular society and its mode of production , and it is precisely these that have been irrevocably lost in the process of industrialization ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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