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... experience . Indeed , I recognize the signs made by someone who is in pain , even when this experience is beyond my aid or comprehension . This awareness of extreme loneliness is a peculiarity of the compassion we feel for bodily pain ...
... experience . Indeed , I recognize the signs made by someone who is in pain , even when this experience is beyond my aid or comprehension . This awareness of extreme loneliness is a peculiarity of the compassion we feel for bodily pain ...
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... experience their own physical aches and hurts as concrete pain . In this sense , it should be possible to investigate the progressive transformation of the pain experience that has accompanied the medicalization of society . The act of ...
... experience their own physical aches and hurts as concrete pain . In this sense , it should be possible to investigate the progressive transformation of the pain experience that has accompanied the medicalization of society . The act of ...
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... experience of evolution . The human body was part of an irreparably impaired universe , and the sentient soul of man postulated by Aristotle was fully coextensive with his body . In this scheme there was no need to distinguish between ...
... experience of evolution . The human body was part of an irreparably impaired universe , and the sentient soul of man postulated by Aristotle was fully coextensive with his body . In this scheme there was no need to distinguish between ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
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