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... economic and political reasons . The initial success of the Health Service and the present unique disarray in the system make pre- dictions for the future impossible . Demedicalization of health care is as essential there as elsewhere ...
... economic and political reasons . The initial success of the Health Service and the present unique disarray in the system make pre- dictions for the future impossible . Demedicalization of health care is as essential there as elsewhere ...
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... economic cost . Pain has be- come a political issue which gives rise to a snowball- ing demand on the part of anesthesia consumers for artificially induced insensibility , unawareness , and even unconsciousness . Traditional cultures ...
... economic cost . Pain has be- come a political issue which gives rise to a snowball- ing demand on the part of anesthesia consumers for artificially induced insensibility , unawareness , and even unconsciousness . Traditional cultures ...
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... economic value of the specific activities in which physicians engage . Socialist nations assume the fi- nancing of all care and leave it to the medical pro- P. E. Enterline , " Sick Absence in Certain Western Countries , " Industrial ...
... economic value of the specific activities in which physicians engage . Socialist nations assume the fi- nancing of all care and leave it to the medical pro- P. E. Enterline , " Sick Absence in Certain Western Countries , " Industrial ...
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The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 31 |
Introduction | 121 |
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