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42 Robert Sutherland, Cancer: The Significance of Delay (London: Butterworth,
1960), pp. 196-202. Also Hedley Atkins et al., "Treatment of Early Breast Cancer:
A Report after Ten Years of Clinical Trial," British Medical Journal, 1972, 2:423-9;
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42 Robert Sutherland, Cancer: The Significance of Delay (London: Butterworth,
1960), pp. 196-202. Also Hedley Atkins et al., "Treatment of Early Breast Cancer:
A Report after Ten Years of Clinical Trial," British Medical Journal, 1972, 2:423-9;
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During the French Revolution, English doctors still looked askance at clinical
thermometry. Together with the routine taking of the pulse, it became accepted
clinical practice only around 1845, nearly thirty years after the stethoscope was
first ...
During the French Revolution, English doctors still looked askance at clinical
thermometry. Together with the routine taking of the pulse, it became accepted
clinical practice only around 1845, nearly thirty years after the stethoscope was
first ...
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But the doctor's newly acquired clinical eyeglasses made him look at death in a
new perspective. Whereas the merchants of the eighteenth century had
determined the outlook on death with the help of the charlatans they employed
and paid, ...
But the doctor's newly acquired clinical eyeglasses made him look at death in a
new perspective. Whereas the merchants of the eighteenth century had
determined the outlook on death with the help of the charlatans they employed
and paid, ...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
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| Title | Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health Open forum |
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Marion Boyars, 1976 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 071452512X, 9780714525129 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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