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Page 214
... produce education , motor vehicles produce locomotion , and medicine produces health care . These outputs are staples that have all the characteristics of commodities . Their production costs can be added to or subtracted from the GNP ...
... produce education , motor vehicles produce locomotion , and medicine produces health care . These outputs are staples that have all the characteristics of commodities . Their production costs can be added to or subtracted from the GNP ...
Page 216
... production then takes on a negative cast . The arrangement of society in favor of managed commodity production has two ultimately de- structive aspects : people are trained for consumption rather than for action , and at the same time ...
... production then takes on a negative cast . The arrangement of society in favor of managed commodity production has two ultimately de- structive aspects : people are trained for consumption rather than for action , and at the same time ...
Page 269
... production . The taboos were tied to the values of a particular society and its mode of production , and it is precisely those that were irrevocably lost in the process of industrialization . It is not necessary , probably not feasible ...
... production . The taboos were tied to the values of a particular society and its mode of production , and it is precisely those that were irrevocably lost in the process of industrialization . It is not necessary , probably not feasible ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
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