Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... survive trauma , but survival rates for the most common types of cancer - those which make up 90 percent of the cases have remained virtually unchanged over the last twenty - five years . This fact has consistently been clouded by ...
... survive trauma , but survival rates for the most common types of cancer - those which make up 90 percent of the cases have remained virtually unchanged over the last twenty - five years . This fact has consistently been clouded by ...
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... survival.42 Surgery and chemotherapy for rare congenital and rheu- matic heart disease have increased the chances for an active life for some of those who suffer from degenerative conditions.43 The medical treatment of common cardiovas ...
... survival.42 Surgery and chemotherapy for rare congenital and rheu- matic heart disease have increased the chances for an active life for some of those who suffer from degenerative conditions.43 The medical treatment of common cardiovas ...
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... survival rates of small groups of people selected by medical diagnosis is something else . Antibiotics have enormously increased the chances of surviving pneumonia ; oral rehydration , the probability of surviving dysentery or cholera ...
... survival rates of small groups of people selected by medical diagnosis is something else . Antibiotics have enormously increased the chances of surviving pneumonia ; oral rehydration , the probability of surviving dysentery or cholera ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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