Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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Page 40
... dependence on medical care . The proliferation of medical agents is health - denying not only or primarily because of the specific functional or organic lesions produced by doctors , but because they produce dependence . And this dependence ...
... dependence on medical care . The proliferation of medical agents is health - denying not only or primarily because of the specific functional or organic lesions produced by doctors , but because they produce dependence . And this dependence ...
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... Dependence on Drugs Doctors are not needed to sponsor addiction to medicine . Poor countries that cannot afford widespread dependence on pro- fessionals nevertheless produce sickness from the compulsive use of prescription drugs ...
... Dependence on Drugs Doctors are not needed to sponsor addiction to medicine . Poor countries that cannot afford widespread dependence on pro- fessionals nevertheless produce sickness from the compulsive use of prescription drugs ...
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... dependence on the professional management of pain , sickness and death grows beyond a certain point , the healing power in sick- ness , patience in suffering and fortitude in the face of death must decline . These three regressions are ...
... dependence on the professional management of pain , sickness and death grows beyond a certain point , the healing power in sick- ness , patience in suffering and fortitude in the face of death must decline . These three regressions are ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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