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... role . By being assigned a name and a role , eerie and upsetting deviants are turned into well - defined and established categories . In industrial societies the abnormal is entitled to special consumption . Medical labelling has ...
... role . By being assigned a name and a role , eerie and upsetting deviants are turned into well - defined and established categories . In industrial societies the abnormal is entitled to special consumption . Medical labelling has ...
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... role became almost totally identified with the patient role . The sick person was exonerated from most responsibility for his sickness . He was neither held accountable for having become sick nor expected to have the ability to recover ...
... role became almost totally identified with the patient role . The sick person was exonerated from most responsibility for his sickness . He was neither held accountable for having become sick nor expected to have the ability to recover ...
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... role of the doctor has now become blurred . 108 The health professions have come to amalgamate clinical service , public health engineering and scientific medicine . The doctor deals with clients who are simultaneously cast in several roles ...
... role of the doctor has now become blurred . 108 The health professions have come to amalgamate clinical service , public health engineering and scientific medicine . The doctor deals with clients who are simultaneously cast in several roles ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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