Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... countries want hospitals , and many want them to have the most exotic modern equipment . The poorer the country , the higher the real cost of each item on their inventories . Modern hospital beds , incubators , laborato- ries ...
... countries want hospitals , and many want them to have the most exotic modern equipment . The poorer the country , the higher the real cost of each item on their inventories . Modern hospital beds , incubators , laborato- ries ...
Page 237
... countries varies by factors exceeding the proportion of one to one thousand.54 In many poor countries , the few are socially predetermined to get much more than the majority , not so much because they are rich as because they are ...
... countries varies by factors exceeding the proportion of one to one thousand.54 In many poor countries , the few are socially predetermined to get much more than the majority , not so much because they are rich as because they are ...
Page 240
... country . To be able to afford to give all of the poor equal access to medicine of uniform quality in poor countries , most of the present training and activity of the health professions would have to be discontinued . How- ever ...
... country . To be able to afford to give all of the poor equal access to medicine of uniform quality in poor countries , most of the present training and activity of the health professions would have to be discontinued . How- ever ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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