Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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Page 49
... organization and ideology " of different systems . Everywhere " the rationalization is motivated , not by politics of the left or the right , but by the sheer necessity to secure more effective use of scarce and expensive resources ...
... organization and ideology " of different systems . Everywhere " the rationalization is motivated , not by politics of the left or the right , but by the sheer necessity to secure more effective use of scarce and expensive resources ...
Page 109
... organizations are left with only a small part of their former ritual healing roles . One devout Catholic might derive ... organization of technological medicine , which in turn ritualizes and celebrates the nineteenth - century ideal of ...
... organizations are left with only a small part of their former ritual healing roles . One devout Catholic might derive ... organization of technological medicine , which in turn ritualizes and celebrates the nineteenth - century ideal of ...
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... Organized medicine has practically ceased to be the art of healing the curable , and consoling the hopeless has turned ... organization of patient cooperatives to balance or support a professional medical power . Each of these proposals ...
... Organized medicine has practically ceased to be the art of healing the curable , and consoling the hopeless has turned ... organization of patient cooperatives to balance or support a professional medical power . Each of these proposals ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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