Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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Page 15
... progress of 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 ...
... progress of 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 ...
Page 27
... progress and consists in the paralysis of healthy responses to suffering.43 It strikes when people accept health management designed on the engineering model , when they conspire in an attempt to produce something called ' better health ...
... progress and consists in the paralysis of healthy responses to suffering.43 It strikes when people accept health management designed on the engineering model , when they conspire in an attempt to produce something called ' better health ...
Page 54
... progress , even though the main effect of school has been shown to be the production of drop- outs as a majority . 101 In a similar way , the rituals of medical care will make people believe that their health is served by treatment ...
... progress , even though the main effect of school has been shown to be the production of drop- outs as a majority . 101 In a similar way , the rituals of medical care will make people believe that their health is served by treatment ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
Copyright | |
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