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... treatment , prevention , information , and research . In all nations of the Western Hemisphere , prevention ( e.g. , potable water ) and education are significantly related to life expectancy , but none of the " treatment variables ...
... treatment , prevention , information , and research . In all nations of the Western Hemisphere , prevention ( e.g. , potable water ) and education are significantly related to life expectancy , but none of the " treatment variables ...
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... treatment of common cardiovas- cular disease44 and the intensive treatment of heart physician or layman to a critical evaluation of world literature on the effectiveness of cancer treatment . See also N. E. McKinnon , " The Effects of ...
... treatment of common cardiovas- cular disease44 and the intensive treatment of heart physician or layman to a critical evaluation of world literature on the effectiveness of cancer treatment . See also N. E. McKinnon , " The Effects of ...
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... treatment of nondisease as from treatment of disease . 60 Abraham B. Bergman and Stanley J. Stamm , " The Morbidity of Cardiac Nondisease in School Children , " New England Journal of Medicine 276 ( 1967 ) : 1008-13 . Gives one ...
... treatment of nondisease as from treatment of disease . 60 Abraham B. Bergman and Stanley J. Stamm , " The Morbidity of Cardiac Nondisease in School Children , " New England Journal of Medicine 276 ( 1967 ) : 1008-13 . Gives one ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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