Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... progress and consists in the paralysis of healthy responses to suffering , impairment , and death . It occurs when people accept health management de- signed on the engineering model , when they conspire in an attempt to produce , as if ...
... progress and consists in the paralysis of healthy responses to suffering , impairment , and death . It occurs when people accept health management de- signed on the engineering model , when they conspire in an attempt to produce , as if ...
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... Progress : History and Society ( New York : Basic Books , 1968 ) , deals with the ideology of human progress in relation to concrete history and the politico - economic aspects complementing philosophy . 23 To study this clash in Latin ...
... Progress : History and Society ( New York : Basic Books , 1968 ) , deals with the ideology of human progress in relation to concrete history and the politico - economic aspects complementing philosophy . 23 To study this clash in Latin ...
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... 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 calculate the price of progress . The torts resulting from ...
... 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 calculate the price of progress . The torts resulting from ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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