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Page 100
... physician all need to prove the technical effectiveness of those resources he commands.196 There are no limits to his power to demand more and ever more . Finally , the patient's death places the physician beyond potential control and ...
... physician all need to prove the technical effectiveness of those resources he commands.196 There are no limits to his power to demand more and ever more . Finally , the patient's death places the physician beyond potential control and ...
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... physicians and healing priests.234 The Arabs honored the physician ; 235 the Jews left health care to the quality of the ghetto or , with a bad conscience , brought in the Arab physician.236 Medicine's several functions combined in ...
... physicians and healing priests.234 The Arabs honored the physician ; 235 the Jews left health care to the quality of the ghetto or , with a bad conscience , brought in the Arab physician.236 Medicine's several functions combined in ...
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... physician is rare . In the only picture I have located in which death treats the doctor as a colleague , he has taken an old man by one hand , while in the other he carries a glass of urine , and seems to be asking the physician to ...
... physician is rare . In the only picture I have located in which death treats the doctor as a colleague , he has taken an old man by one hand , while in the other he carries a glass of urine , and seems to be asking the physician to ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
Copyright | |
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