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... professional health care affects all social relations . In rich countries medical colonization has reached sickening proportions ; poor countries are quickly following suit . This process , which I shall call the ' medicalization of ...
... professional health care affects all social relations . In rich countries medical colonization has reached sickening proportions ; poor countries are quickly following suit . This process , which I shall call the ' medicalization of ...
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... professional constitutes the recognized point at which illness starts . It is the point at which the sick turns into a patient . Most people are not patients most of the time they feel ill . 108 CHRISTIE , Nils . Law and medicine : the ...
... professional constitutes the recognized point at which illness starts . It is the point at which the sick turns into a patient . Most people are not patients most of the time they feel ill . 108 CHRISTIE , Nils . Law and medicine : the ...
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... professional service and less of a general skill , 135 In fifteen years the number of specialties recognized by the American Medical Association has more than doubled and now includes sixty - seven fields . Within each field a fiefdom ...
... professional service and less of a general skill , 135 In fifteen years the number of specialties recognized by the American Medical Association has more than doubled and now includes sixty - seven fields . Within each field a fiefdom ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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