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Page 55
... clients rather than a fee for service . But like all other such remedies , capitation enlarges the iatrogenic fascination with the health supply . People forgo their own lives to get as much treatment as they can . In England the ...
... clients rather than a fee for service . But like all other such remedies , capitation enlarges the iatrogenic fascination with the health supply . People forgo their own lives to get as much treatment as they can . In England the ...
Page 190
... clients who were anxious to pay for the attempt . This was a new type of rich man who refused to die in retirement and insisted on being carried away by death from natural exhaustion while still on the job . He refused to accept death ...
... clients who were anxious to pay for the attempt . This was a new type of rich man who refused to die in retirement and insisted on being carried away by death from natural exhaustion while still on the job . He refused to accept death ...
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... client has been resorbed into a vague sense of power extending over all tasks and clients of all colleagues . Medical science applied by medical scientists provides the correct treatment , regardless of whether it results in a cure , or ...
... client has been resorbed into a vague sense of power extending over all tasks and clients of all colleagues . Medical science applied by medical scientists provides the correct treatment , regardless of whether it results in a cure , or ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
Copyright | |
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