Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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Page 40
... Social Iatrogenesis Medicine undermines health not only through direct aggression against individuals but also through the impact of its social organization on the total milieu . When medical damage to individual health is produced by a ...
... Social Iatrogenesis Medicine undermines health not only through direct aggression against individuals but also through the impact of its social organization on the total milieu . When medical damage to individual health is produced by a ...
Page 43
... social control of the population by the medical system turns into a principal economic activity . It serves to legitimize social arrange- ments into which many people do not fit . It labels the handicapped as unfit and breeds ever new ...
... social control of the population by the medical system turns into a principal economic activity . It serves to legitimize social arrange- ments into which many people do not fit . It labels the handicapped as unfit and breeds ever new ...
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... social service plan to meet a social need , Bradshaw distinguishes 12 distinct situations according to the presence or absence of any of four need - factors : ( 1 ) normative need , defined by expert or professional knowledge ; ( 2 ) ...
... social service plan to meet a social need , Bradshaw distinguishes 12 distinct situations according to the presence or absence of any of four need - factors : ( 1 ) normative need , defined by expert or professional knowledge ; ( 2 ) ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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