Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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... survival comes to depend beyond a cer- tain point on the heteronomous ( other - directed ) reg- ulation of the organism's homeostasis . Beyond a crit- ical level of intensity , institutional health care - no matter if it takes the form ...
... survival comes to depend beyond a cer- tain point on the heteronomous ( other - directed ) reg- ulation of the organism's homeostasis . Beyond a crit- ical level of intensity , institutional health care - no matter if it takes the form ...
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... survive trauma , but survival rates for the most common types of cancer - those which make up 90 percent of the cases - have remained virtually un- changed over the last twenty - five years . This fact has consistently been clouded by ...
... survive trauma , but survival rates for the most common types of cancer - those which make up 90 percent of the cases - have remained virtually un- changed over the last twenty - five years . This fact has consistently been clouded by ...
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... survival , and with equitable distribution of social outputs and equitable access to social control , the outcome ought to be a recognition of the carrying capacity of the environment and of the optimal industrial complement to ...
... survival , and with equitable distribution of social outputs and equitable access to social control , the outcome ought to be a recognition of the carrying capacity of the environment and of the optimal industrial complement to ...
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The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 31 |
Introduction | 121 |
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