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Page 53
... technical mastery of disease , the larger became the symbolic and non - technical functions per- formed by medical technology . White coats , antiseptic environ- ments , ambulances and insurance came to serve magical and symbolic ...
... technical mastery of disease , the larger became the symbolic and non - technical functions per- formed by medical technology . White coats , antiseptic environ- ments , ambulances and insurance came to serve magical and symbolic ...
Page 121
... technical devices of medical magic does not mean that the state shall protect individual people against exploitation by ministers of medical cults ; it means only that tax - funds shall not be used to establish any such rituals ...
... technical devices of medical magic does not mean that the state shall protect individual people against exploitation by ministers of medical cults ; it means only that tax - funds shall not be used to establish any such rituals ...
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... technical society , in : Hastings Center Studies , Vol . 2 , No. 2 , May 1974 , pp . 31-36 . ' There has been a shift of death from within the moral order to the technical order ... I do not believe that men were inherently more moral ...
... technical society , in : Hastings Center Studies , Vol . 2 , No. 2 , May 1974 , pp . 31-36 . ' There has been a shift of death from within the moral order to the technical order ... I do not believe that men were inherently more moral ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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