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... healer . To defuse the issue and to protect their reputation , some physicians insist on the obvious : namely , that medicine cannot be practiced without the iatrogenic creation of disease . Medicine al- ways creates illness as a social ...
... healer . To defuse the issue and to protect their reputation , some physicians insist on the obvious : namely , that medicine cannot be practiced without the iatrogenic creation of disease . Medicine al- ways creates illness as a social ...
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... healer or just anodyne . Magic or healing through ceremonies is clearly one of the important traditional functions of medicine.223 In 221 H. G. Mather et al . , " Acute Myocardial Infarction : Home and Hospital Treatment , " British ...
... healer or just anodyne . Magic or healing through ceremonies is clearly one of the important traditional functions of medicine.223 In 221 H. G. Mather et al . , " Acute Myocardial Infarction : Home and Hospital Treatment , " British ...
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... healer , pain assumed the role of a step towards the restoration of health . Where the doctor could not heal , he felt no qualms about telling his patient to use analgesics and thus moderate inevitable suffering . Like Oliver Wendell ...
... healer , pain assumed the role of a step towards the restoration of health . Where the doctor could not heal , he felt no qualms about telling his patient to use analgesics and thus moderate inevitable suffering . Like Oliver Wendell ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
Copyright | |
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