Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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... man are differently perceived and defined in the perspective of the people still at large , the physician , the patient guided by the physician and by the keepers of vital statistics . From all four points of view the chief burden of man's ...
... man are differently perceived and defined in the perspective of the people still at large , the physician , the patient guided by the physician and by the keepers of vital statistics . From all four points of view the chief burden of man's ...
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... man as perfectly as he could make him , and he could not have invented a better device for his maintenance than to ... man's function- ing ' . Within two generations of Descartes's attempt at a scientific anthropology , pain had become ...
... man as perfectly as he could make him , and he could not have invented a better device for his maintenance than to ... man's function- ing ' . Within two generations of Descartes's attempt at a scientific anthropology , pain had become ...
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... man and his next of kin . Instead of submitting the physical and mental integrity of citizens to more and more wardens , such legislation would recognize each man's right to define his own health - subject only to limitations imposed by ...
... man and his next of kin . Instead of submitting the physical and mental integrity of citizens to more and more wardens , such legislation would recognize each man's right to define his own health - subject only to limitations imposed by ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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