Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... turned health care into a sick - making enterprise is the very intensity of an engineering endeavor that has translated human survival from the performance of organisms into the result of technical manipulation . " Health , " after all ...
... turned health care into a sick - making enterprise is the very intensity of an engineering endeavor that has translated human survival from the performance of organisms into the result of technical manipulation . " Health , " after all ...
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... turned into a standardized item , a staple ; when all suffering is “ hospitalized ” and homes become inhospitable to birth , sickness , and death ; when the language in which people could experience their bodies is turned into ...
... turned into a standardized item , a staple ; when all suffering is “ hospitalized ” and homes become inhospitable to birth , sickness , and death ; when the language in which people could experience their bodies is turned into ...
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... turned away from the fire that could destroy him . However , he concludes that God could have succeeded with this strategy only by working miracles , and since , as a matter of principle , God avoids miracles , “ pain is a necessary and ...
... turned away from the fire that could destroy him . However , he concludes that God could have succeeded with this strategy only by working miracles , and since , as a matter of principle , God avoids miracles , “ pain is a necessary and ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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