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... industrial growth , who are the few that get more and can do more , and who fall into the majority whose marginal access to industrial products is compounded by their loss of autonomous effectiveness . Only political judgment can assess ...
... industrial growth , who are the few that get more and can do more , and who fall into the majority whose marginal access to industrial products is compounded by their loss of autonomous effectiveness . Only political judgment can assess ...
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... industrial hubris , nemesis must set in , because progress , like the broom of the sorcerer's apprentice , can no longer be turned off . Defenders of industrial progress are either blind or corrupt if they pretend that they can ...
... industrial hubris , nemesis must set in , because progress , like the broom of the sorcerer's apprentice , can no longer be turned off . Defenders of industrial progress are either blind or corrupt if they pretend that they can ...
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... industrial production . The taboos were tied to the values of a particular society and its mode of production , and it is precisely those that were irrevocably lost in the process of industrialization . It is not necessary , probably ...
... industrial production . The taboos were tied to the values of a particular society and its mode of production , and it is precisely those that were irrevocably lost in the process of industrialization . It is not necessary , probably ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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