Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... become medically irreversible : a feature built right into the medical endeavor . The unwanted physiological , social , and psychological by - products of diagnostic and therapeutic progress have become resistant to medical remedies ...
... become medically irreversible : a feature built right into the medical endeavor . The unwanted physiological , social , and psychological by - products of diagnostic and therapeutic progress have become resistant to medical remedies ...
Page 120
... become a predominant task , and new scientific categories of disease have been shaped for the purpose . Medical school and clinic provide the doctor with the atmosphere in which disease , in his eyes , may become a task for biological ...
... become a predominant task , and new scientific categories of disease have been shaped for the purpose . Medical school and clinic provide the doctor with the atmosphere in which disease , in his eyes , may become a task for biological ...
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... become a subject in the syllabus and sharing one's spoon is discouraged for the sake of hygiene . The struggle against death , which dominates the life - style of the rich , is translated by development agencies into a set of rules by ...
... become a subject in the syllabus and sharing one's spoon is discouraged for the sake of hygiene . The struggle against death , which dominates the life - style of the rich , is translated by development agencies into a set of rules by ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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