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Page 57
... sickness in one might be crime , holiness , or sin in another . The response to the deviant also varies from culture to culture . For the same symptom a man might be expelled by being killed , exiled , exposed , in- carcerated or ...
... sickness in one might be crime , holiness , or sin in another . The response to the deviant also varies from culture to culture . For the same symptom a man might be expelled by being killed , exiled , exposed , in- carcerated or ...
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... sickness . All disease is a socially created reality . What it means and the response it evokes have a history . The ... sickness only . Physical sickness is confined to the body , and it lies in an anatomical , physiological and genetic ...
... sickness . All disease is a socially created reality . What it means and the response it evokes have a history . The ... sickness only . Physical sickness is confined to the body , and it lies in an anatomical , physiological and genetic ...
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... sickness came to be perceived as an organic or behavioural abnormality the patient could hope to find in the eyes of his doctor a reflection of his own anguish . What he now meets is the W gaze of an accountant engaged in an input ...
... sickness came to be perceived as an organic or behavioural abnormality the patient could hope to find in the eyes of his doctor a reflection of his own anguish . What he now meets is the W gaze of an accountant engaged in an input ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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