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... National Health Service in Britain had just reached a high point in its development . It had been planned by Beveridge on the concepts of health prevailing in the 1930s . These assumed that there was a strictly ' limited quantity of ...
... National Health Service in Britain had just reached a high point in its development . It had been planned by Beveridge on the concepts of health prevailing in the 1930s . These assumed that there was a strictly ' limited quantity of ...
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The Expropriation of Health Ivan Illich. In England the National Health Service ensured that the same kind of cost - inflation would be less plagued by conspicuous flim- flam . A stern commitment to equality prevented those astounding ...
The Expropriation of Health Ivan Illich. In England the National Health Service ensured that the same kind of cost - inflation would be less plagued by conspicuous flim- flam . A stern commitment to equality prevented those astounding ...
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... medical sick - care less necessary . Each family would again be able to take care of its members , and each village to provide for the sick who were without relatives . A National Health Service would be in charge of health care and ...
... medical sick - care less necessary . Each family would again be able to take care of its members , and each village to provide for the sick who were without relatives . A National Health Service would be in charge of health care and ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
Copyright | |
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