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... healer . To defuse the issue and to protect their reputation , some physi- cians insist on the obvious : namely , that medicine can- not be practiced without the iatrogenic creation of dis- ease . Medicine always creates illness as a ...
... healer . To defuse the issue and to protect their reputation , some physi- cians insist on the obvious : namely , that medicine can- not be practiced without the iatrogenic creation of dis- ease . Medicine always creates illness as a ...
Page 102
... healer or just anodyne . Magic or healing through ceremonies is clearly one of the important traditional functions of medi- cine.228 In magic the healer manipulates the setting and the stage . In a somewhat impersonal way he es ...
... healer or just anodyne . Magic or healing through ceremonies is clearly one of the important traditional functions of medi- cine.228 In magic the healer manipulates the setting and the stage . In a somewhat impersonal way he es ...
Page 105
... healers appear : Vern L. Bullough , " Medical Study at Medieval Oxford , " Speculum 36 ( 1961 ) : 600-12 . 232 The Term ' Doctor , ' " Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 18 ( 1963 ) : 284–7 . 233 Louis Cohn - Haft ...
... healers appear : Vern L. Bullough , " Medical Study at Medieval Oxford , " Speculum 36 ( 1961 ) : 600-12 . 232 The Term ' Doctor , ' " Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 18 ( 1963 ) : 284–7 . 233 Louis Cohn - Haft ...
Contents
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 31 |
Introduction | 121 |
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