Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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... mortality from younger to older groups can be explained by the incorporation of these procedures and devices into the layman's culture . In contrast to environmental improvements and modern nonprofessional health measures , the ...
... mortality from younger to older groups can be explained by the incorporation of these procedures and devices into the layman's culture . In contrast to environmental improvements and modern nonprofessional health measures , the ...
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... mortality the United States ranks seventeenth among nations , infant mortality among the poor is much higher than among higher - income groups . In New York City , infant mortality among the black population is more than twice as high ...
... mortality the United States ranks seventeenth among nations , infant mortality among the poor is much higher than among higher - income groups . In New York City , infant mortality among the black population is more than twice as high ...
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... mortality , p . 253 on socio - economic status . 30 Raymond S. Duff and August B. Hollingshead , Sickness and Society ( New York : Harper & Row , 1961 ) . S. H. King , Perceptions of Illness and Medical Practice ( New York : Russell ...
... mortality , p . 253 on socio - economic status . 30 Raymond S. Duff and August B. Hollingshead , Sickness and Society ( New York : Harper & Row , 1961 ) . S. H. King , Perceptions of Illness and Medical Practice ( New York : Russell ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
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