Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... engineering endeavor that has translated human survival from the performance of organisms into the result of technical manipulation . " Health , " after all , is simply an everyday word that is used to designate the intensity with which ...
... engineering endeavor that has translated human survival from the performance of organisms into the result of technical manipulation . " Health , " after all , is simply an everyday word that is used to designate the intensity with which ...
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... Engineering : Projections for Health Care Delivery ( New York : Academic Press , 1972 ) , p . 115 . 49 Victor R. Fuchs , Who Shall Live ? Health , Economics and Social Choice ( New York : Basic Books , 1974 ) , p . 15 . Canada , France ...
... Engineering : Projections for Health Care Delivery ( New York : Academic Press , 1972 ) , p . 115 . 49 Victor R. Fuchs , Who Shall Live ? Health , Economics and Social Choice ( New York : Basic Books , 1974 ) , p . 15 . Canada , France ...
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... engineering intervention in sickness is not making much progress as a strategy . The continued insistence on this strategy can be explained only if it serves nontechnical purposes . Diminishing returns within medicine are a specific ...
... engineering intervention in sickness is not making much progress as a strategy . The continued insistence on this strategy can be explained only if it serves nontechnical purposes . Diminishing returns within medicine are a specific ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
Copyright | |
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