Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health |
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Page 252
... scientific standards in medical re- search and social organization argue that pathogenic medicine is due to the overwhelming number of bad doctors let loose on society . Fewer decision - makers , more carefully screened , better trained ...
... scientific standards in medical re- search and social organization argue that pathogenic medicine is due to the overwhelming number of bad doctors let loose on society . Fewer decision - makers , more carefully screened , better trained ...
Page 253
... scientific team . Experiment is the method of science , and the records he keeps if he likes it or not - are part of the data for a scientific enterprise . Each treatment is one more repetition of an experiment with a statistically ...
... scientific team . Experiment is the method of science , and the records he keeps if he likes it or not - are part of the data for a scientific enterprise . Each treatment is one more repetition of an experiment with a statistically ...
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... scientific language over the language of the layman is one of the major bulwarks of professional privilege . The ... scientific institutions regarding the threat constituted by low - level radiation . The reviewers argue for policy ...
... scientific language over the language of the layman is one of the major bulwarks of professional privilege . The ... scientific institutions regarding the threat constituted by low - level radiation . The reviewers argue for policy ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
Copyright | |
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