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... increasingly modest , even though the service offered by the hospital is increasingly more costly . High cost hospital care is thus self - reinforcing . COHEN , Victor . More hospitals to fill : abuses grow , in : Technology Review ...
... increasingly modest , even though the service offered by the hospital is increasingly more costly . High cost hospital care is thus self - reinforcing . COHEN , Victor . More hospitals to fill : abuses grow , in : Technology Review ...
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... increasingly losing its makeshift , semi - independent character and is being integrated into a unitary health care system . After a short honeymoon with a radical deprofessionalization of health care , the system of referral from the ...
... increasingly losing its makeshift , semi - independent character and is being integrated into a unitary health care system . After a short honeymoon with a radical deprofessionalization of health care , the system of referral from the ...
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... increasingly trivial ; most of the time he is reduced to prescribing without previous clinical tests . 67 He comes to feel useless even in his trivial function because he knows that more and more people will use the same kind of drug ...
... increasingly trivial ; most of the time he is reduced to prescribing without previous clinical tests . 67 He comes to feel useless even in his trivial function because he knows that more and more people will use the same kind of drug ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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