Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 55
Page 21
... modern nonprofessional health measures , the specifically medical treatment of people is never significantly related to a decline in the compound disease burden or to a rise in life expectancy.29 Neither the proportion of doctors in a ...
... modern nonprofessional health measures , the specifically medical treatment of people is never significantly related to a decline in the compound disease burden or to a rise in life expectancy.29 Neither the proportion of doctors in a ...
Page 79
... modern city consult Gerald F. Pyle . " The Geography of Health Care , " in John Melton Hunter , The Geography of Health and Disease , Studies in Geography no . 6 ( Chapel Hill , N.C .: Univ . of North Carolina Press , 1974 ) , a spatial ...
... modern city consult Gerald F. Pyle . " The Geography of Health Care , " in John Melton Hunter , The Geography of Health and Disease , Studies in Geography no . 6 ( Chapel Hill , N.C .: Univ . of North Carolina Press , 1974 ) , a spatial ...
Page 202
... Modern Society in a Theological Perspective , " mimeographed , 1973 , lists contemporary Christian writings on death in an industrial society . John Riley , Jr. , and Robert W. Habenstein , " Death : 1. Death and Bereavement ; 2 . The ...
... Modern Society in a Theological Perspective , " mimeographed , 1973 , lists contemporary Christian writings on death in an industrial society . John Riley , Jr. , and Robert W. Habenstein , " Death : 1. Death and Bereavement ; 2 . The ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alan Berg American Medical Association autonomous become behavior Bibliography Boyars cancer century chap Chicago clients clinical clinical death consumer contemporary cost countries crisis Cuernavaca culture damage dance depend developed deviance diagnosis doctor drug dying economic effective engineering England Journal environment Erwin H ethical experience function Geschichte Hastings Center healer healing health levels Health Service hospital human iatrogenesis iatrogenic iatrogenic disease illness increased individual institutions International intervention Ivan Illich Journal of Medicine kind limits literature London modern monopoly mort mortality myth National National Health Service nemesis nocebo organization pain Pan-American Health Organization Paris patient percent physician placebo political poor population prescription Press production profession professional recognized responsible result ritual role Science scientific sector sick side-effects siècle Siegfried Giedion social iatrogenesis Sociology specific Stuttgart suffering survival technical therapeutic therapy tion tonsillectomy traditional treatment turned Univ York