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Page 81
... engineering . 138 They indicate strategies for surgical , chemical , and behavioural intervention in the lives of sick people or people threatened with sickness . A fifth category of criticism rejects these objectives . Without ...
... engineering . 138 They indicate strategies for surgical , chemical , and behavioural intervention in the lives of sick people or people threatened with sickness . A fifth category of criticism rejects these objectives . Without ...
Page 83
... engineering needed to fit populations into engineering systems . As the health delivery system continually fails to meet the demands made upon it , conditions now classified as illness might soon develop into aspects of criminal ...
... engineering needed to fit populations into engineering systems . As the health delivery system continually fails to meet the demands made upon it , conditions now classified as illness might soon develop into aspects of criminal ...
Page 154
... engineering of ritual responses hubris has spread . Unbounded material progress has become Everyman's goal . Industrial hubris has destroyed the mythical framework of limits to irrational fantasies . Engineering has materialized the ...
... engineering of ritual responses hubris has spread . Unbounded material progress has become Everyman's goal . Industrial hubris has destroyed the mythical framework of limits to irrational fantasies . Engineering has materialized the ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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