Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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Page 21
... scientific rules to classes of patients , mal- practice acquired an anonymous , almost respectable status.63 What had formerly been considered an abuse of confidence and a moral fault can now be rational- ized into the occasional ...
... scientific rules to classes of patients , mal- practice acquired an anonymous , almost respectable status.63 What had formerly been considered an abuse of confidence and a moral fault can now be rational- ized into the occasional ...
Page 114
... scientific entre- preneur . To exonerate the sick from accountability for their illness has become a predominant task , and new scientific categories of disease have been shaped for the purpose . Medical school and clinic provide the ...
... scientific entre- preneur . To exonerate the sick from accountability for their illness has become a predominant task , and new scientific categories of disease have been shaped for the purpose . Medical school and clinic provide the ...
Page 248
... Scientific Organization - of Life Belief in medicine as an applied science generates a fourth kind of countermeasure to iatrogenesis which inevitably increases the irresponsible power of the health profession - and thereby the damage ...
... Scientific Organization - of Life Belief in medicine as an applied science generates a fourth kind of countermeasure to iatrogenesis which inevitably increases the irresponsible power of the health profession - and thereby the damage ...
Contents
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 31 |
Introduction | 121 |
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