Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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... engineering endeavor that has translated human survival from the performance of organisms into the result of technical manipulation . " Health , " after all , is simply an everyday word that is used to designate the intensity with which ...
... engineering endeavor that has translated human survival from the performance of organisms into the result of technical manipulation . " Health , " after all , is simply an everyday word that is used to designate the intensity with which ...
Page 199
... engineer . If the civil engineer had learned to manage earth , and the pedagogue - become - educator to manage knowledge , why should the biologist - physician not manage death ? 50 When the doctor contrived to step between humanity and ...
... engineer . If the civil engineer had learned to manage earth , and the pedagogue - become - educator to manage knowledge , why should the biologist - physician not manage death ? 50 When the doctor contrived to step between humanity and ...
Page 257
... engineering.92 They indicate strategies for surgical , chemical , and behavioral intervention in the lives of sick people or people threatened with sickness . A fifth category of criticism rejects these objectives . Without ...
... engineering.92 They indicate strategies for surgical , chemical , and behavioral intervention in the lives of sick people or people threatened with sickness . A fifth category of criticism rejects these objectives . Without ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
Copyright | |
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