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Page 132
... civilization is planned and organized to kill pain , to eliminate sickness , and to abolish the need for an art of suffering and of dying . This progressive flattening out of personal , virtuous performance constitutes a new goal which ...
... civilization is planned and organized to kill pain , to eliminate sickness , and to abolish the need for an art of suffering and of dying . This progressive flattening out of personal , virtuous performance constitutes a new goal which ...
Page 133
... civilization colonizes any traditional culture , it transforms the experience of pain . ' The same nervous stimulation that I shall call “ pain sensation " will result in a distinct experience , depending not only on personality but ...
... civilization colonizes any traditional culture , it transforms the experience of pain . ' The same nervous stimulation that I shall call “ pain sensation " will result in a distinct experience , depending not only on personality but ...
Page 175
... civilization and has been a major force in cultural colonization . The image of a “ natural death , " a death which comes under medical care and finds us in good health and old age , is a quite recent ideal.3 In five hundred years it ...
... civilization and has been a major force in cultural colonization . The image of a “ natural death , " a death which comes under medical care and finds us in good health and old age , is a quite recent ideal.3 In five hundred years it ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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