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... OVER- INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETY 4 FUTILE POLITICAL COUNTER - MEASURES Consumer Protection for Addicts , page 67 . Egalitarian Access to Torts , page 70. Public Control over the Medical Mafia , page 75 . Tax Support to all Medical Sects ...
... OVER- INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETY 4 FUTILE POLITICAL COUNTER - MEASURES Consumer Protection for Addicts , page 67 . Egalitarian Access to Torts , page 70. Public Control over the Medical Mafia , page 75 . Tax Support to all Medical Sects ...
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... OVER - INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETY THE HE medicalization of life is but one aspect of the destructive dominance of industry in our society . Over - medicalization is a particularly painful example of frustrating over - production . The danger of ...
... OVER - INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETY THE HE medicalization of life is but one aspect of the destructive dominance of industry in our society . Over - medicalization is a particularly painful example of frustrating over - production . The danger of ...
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... Industrial society cannot function without providing its members with many opportunities to be diagnosed as suffering from real , substantive disease as a distinct entity . An over- industrialized society is sickening , in the sense ...
... Industrial society cannot function without providing its members with many opportunities to be diagnosed as suffering from real , substantive disease as a distinct entity . An over- industrialized society is sickening , in the sense ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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