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Page 54
... percent of GNP , 10 percent of public spending . Private practice had shrunk from half of all care to 4 percent . Direct charges to patients were kept at a phenomenally low 5 percent of the cost . But this stern commitment to equality ...
... percent of GNP , 10 percent of public spending . Private practice had shrunk from half of all care to 4 percent . Direct charges to patients were kept at a phenomenally low 5 percent of the cost . But this stern commitment to equality ...
Page 104
... percent died on the day of arrival , 30 percent within a week , 75 percent within a month , and 97 percent within three months.212 In homes for terminal care , 56 percent were dead within a week of admission . In terminal cancer , there ...
... percent died on the day of arrival , 30 percent within a week , 75 percent within a month , and 97 percent within three months.212 In homes for terminal care , 56 percent were dead within a week of admission . In terminal cancer , there ...
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... percent of the persons questioned claimed to have suffered from illness during the preceding month . By 1972 , 95 percent of those surveyed in one study considered themselves unwell during the fourteen days prior to questioning , and in ...
... percent of the persons questioned claimed to have suffered from illness during the preceding month . By 1972 , 95 percent of those surveyed in one study considered themselves unwell during the fourteen days prior to questioning , and in ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
Copyright | |
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