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... kind . It compares 22 countries , noting significant differences in drug - consumption patterns but enormous difficulties in establishing precise comparisons . Therapeutic catego- ries , cost evaluations , and measurements for ...
... kind . It compares 22 countries , noting significant differences in drug - consumption patterns but enormous difficulties in establishing precise comparisons . Therapeutic catego- ries , cost evaluations , and measurements for ...
Page 112
... kind of deviance with even minimal common characteristics252 is a hazardous undertak- ing . The contemporary assignation of sick - roles is of a unique kind . It developed not much more than a generation before Henderson and Parsons ...
... kind of deviance with even minimal common characteristics252 is a hazardous undertak- ing . The contemporary assignation of sick - roles is of a unique kind . It developed not much more than a generation before Henderson and Parsons ...
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... kind of disvalue that is pain promotes an exceptional kind of certainty . Just as " my pain " belongs in a unique way only to me , so I am utterly alone with it . I cannot share it . I have no doubt about the reality of the pain ...
... kind of disvalue that is pain promotes an exceptional kind of certainty . Just as " my pain " belongs in a unique way only to me , so I am utterly alone with it . I cannot share it . I have no doubt about the reality of the pain ...
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The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 31 |
Introduction | 121 |
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