Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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... become medically irreversible : a feature built right into the medical endeavor . The unwanted physiological , social , and psychological by - products of diagnostic and therapeutic progress have become resistant to medical remedies ...
... become medically irreversible : a feature built right into the medical endeavor . The unwanted physiological , social , and psychological by - products of diagnostic and therapeutic progress have become resistant to medical remedies ...
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... become a predominant task , and new scientific categories of disease have been shaped for the purpose . Medical school and clinic provide the doctor with the atmosphere in which disease , in his eyes , may become a task for biological ...
... become a predominant task , and new scientific categories of disease have been shaped for the purpose . Medical school and clinic provide the doctor with the atmosphere in which disease , in his eyes , may become a task for biological ...
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... become more certain than immortality , more just than king , pope , or even God . Rather than life's aim , it has become the end of life . 17 See Helmuth Plessner , " On the Relation of Time to Death , " in Joseph Campbell , ed ...
... become more certain than immortality , more just than king , pope , or even God . Rather than life's aim , it has become the end of life . 17 See Helmuth Plessner , " On the Relation of Time to Death , " in Joseph Campbell , ed ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
Copyright | |
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