Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... sector was created and technically instrumented . Iatrogenesis cannot be understood unless it is seen as the ... sectors of industrial society in its present stage . A similar analysis could be undertaken in other fields of industrial ...
... sector was created and technically instrumented . Iatrogenesis cannot be understood unless it is seen as the ... sectors of industrial society in its present stage . A similar analysis could be undertaken in other fields of industrial ...
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... sectors . Like time - consuming acceleration , stu- pefying education , self - destructive military defense , disori- enting information , or unsettling housing projects , patho- genic medicine is the result of industrial overproduction ...
... sectors . Like time - consuming acceleration , stu- pefying education , self - destructive military defense , disori- enting information , or unsettling housing projects , patho- genic medicine is the result of industrial overproduction ...
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... sector , where they build a provisional economy with scraps of waste that can serve as building blocks for self - made shacks . Their exposure to extreme famine grows with their dependence on marketed food . Given sufficient generations ...
... sector , where they build a provisional economy with scraps of waste that can serve as building blocks for self - made shacks . Their exposure to extreme famine grows with their dependence on marketed food . Given sufficient generations ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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