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Page 85
... developed countries has increased from thirty - five years in the eighteenth century to seventy years today . This is due mainly to the reduction of infant mortality in these countries ; for example , in England and Wales the number of ...
... developed countries has increased from thirty - five years in the eighteenth century to seventy years today . This is due mainly to the reduction of infant mortality in these countries ; for example , in England and Wales the number of ...
Page 162
... developed towards the end of the eight- eenth century . Doctors visited hospitals where all kinds of sick people were mingled , and trained themselves to pick out several " cases " of the same disease . They developed " bedside vision ...
... developed towards the end of the eight- eenth century . Doctors visited hospitals where all kinds of sick people were mingled , and trained themselves to pick out several " cases " of the same disease . They developed " bedside vision ...
Page 192
... developed . Primitive hunters , gatherers , and nomads had usually killed them , and peasants had put them into the back room , 40 but now the patriarch appeared as a literary ideal . Wisdom was attributed to him just because of his age ...
... developed . Primitive hunters , gatherers , and nomads had usually killed them , and peasants had put them into the back room , 40 but now the patriarch appeared as a literary ideal . Wisdom was attributed to him just because of his age ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
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