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... suffer . In other words , it is only when the ability to suffer , to assume pain , has been deadened , that pain - killing works as expected . When pain - killing on prescription displaces the sense of inevitable suffering moderated by ...
... suffer . In other words , it is only when the ability to suffer , to assume pain , has been deadened , that pain - killing works as expected . When pain - killing on prescription displaces the sense of inevitable suffering moderated by ...
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... suffering and pain . Progress in civiliza- tion became synonymous with the reduction of the sum total of suffering . From then on , politics was taken to be an activity not so much for maximizing happiness as for minimizing suffering ...
... suffering and pain . Progress in civiliza- tion became synonymous with the reduction of the sum total of suffering . From then on , politics was taken to be an activity not so much for maximizing happiness as for minimizing suffering ...
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... suffering : the experience of the artificially painless . Lifton describes the impact of mass death on survivors by studying people who had been close to ground zero in Hiroshima . 179 He found that people moving amongst the injured and ...
... suffering : the experience of the artificially painless . Lifton describes the impact of mass death on survivors by studying people who had been close to ground zero in Hiroshima . 179 He found that people moving amongst the injured and ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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