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... functions ; and the advertising of pseudo - inventions that constitutes an ever larger share of activities performed ... function healthy rather than for the sick.86 Powerful medical drugs easily 56 Medical Nemesis The Pharmaceutical ...
... functions ; and the advertising of pseudo - inventions that constitutes an ever larger share of activities performed ... function healthy rather than for the sick.86 Powerful medical drugs easily 56 Medical Nemesis The Pharmaceutical ...
Page 102
... functions of medi- cine.228 In magic the healer manipulates the setting and the stage . In a somewhat impersonal way ... function as engineer ( and to spare him the charge of being a quack ) , the term " placebo " was created . Whenever ...
... functions of medi- cine.228 In magic the healer manipulates the setting and the stage . In a somewhat impersonal way ... function as engineer ( and to spare him the charge of being a quack ) , the term " placebo " was created . Whenever ...
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... function performed by medical technology . The less proof there is that more money increases survival rates in a ... functions prevail in the removal of adenoids : more than 90 per- cent of all tonsillectomies performed in the United ...
... function performed by medical technology . The less proof there is that more money increases survival rates in a ... functions prevail in the removal of adenoids : more than 90 per- cent of all tonsillectomies performed in the United ...
Contents
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 31 |
Introduction | 121 |
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