Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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Page 137
... pain are distorted . Whereas culture recognizes pain as an intrinsic , intimate , and incommunicable " disvalue , " medi- cal civilization focuses primarily on pain as a systemic reaction that can be verified , measured , and regulated ...
... pain are distorted . Whereas culture recognizes pain as an intrinsic , intimate , and incommunicable " disvalue , " medi- cal civilization focuses primarily on pain as a systemic reaction that can be verified , measured , and regulated ...
Page 140
... pain has undergone an evolution in medical usage , it cannot be grasped simply in the changing significance of any one term . A third obstacle to any history of pain is its exceptional axiological and epistemological status.23 Nobody ...
... pain has undergone an evolution in medical usage , it cannot be grasped simply in the changing significance of any one term . A third obstacle to any history of pain is its exceptional axiological and epistemological status.23 Nobody ...
Page 147
... pain . Pain thus became a useful tool for diagnosis . It revealed to the physician which harmony the patient had to recover . Pain might disappear in the process of healing , but this was certainly not the primary object of the doctor's ...
... pain . Pain thus became a useful tool for diagnosis . It revealed to the physician which harmony the patient had to recover . Pain might disappear in the process of healing , but this was certainly not the primary object of the doctor's ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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