Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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Page 93
... provides each citizen at the last hour with an encounter with society's deadening dream of infinite power.193 Like any crisis manager of bank , state , or couch , he plans self - de- feating strategies and commandeers resources which ...
... provides each citizen at the last hour with an encounter with society's deadening dream of infinite power.193 Like any crisis manager of bank , state , or couch , he plans self - de- feating strategies and commandeers resources which ...
Page 103
... provides saints as models , and usually provides a framework for the practice of folk medicine . In our kind of secular society religious organizations are left with only a small part of their former ritual healing roles . One devout ...
... provides saints as models , and usually provides a framework for the practice of folk medicine . In our kind of secular society religious organizations are left with only a small part of their former ritual healing roles . One devout ...
Page 140
... provides at least four interrelated subprograms : words , drugs , myths , and models . Pain is shaped by culture into a question that can be expressed in words , cries , and gestures , which are often recognized as desperate at- tempts ...
... provides at least four interrelated subprograms : words , drugs , myths , and models . Pain is shaped by culture into a question that can be expressed in words , cries , and gestures , which are often recognized as desperate at- tempts ...
Contents
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 31 |
Introduction | 121 |
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