Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... industrial society . Only people who have recovered the ability for mutual self - care and have learned to combine it with dependence on the application of contemporary technology will be ready to limit the industrial mode of production ...
... industrial society . Only people who have recovered the ability for mutual self - care and have learned to combine it with dependence on the application of contemporary technology will be ready to limit the industrial mode of production ...
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... industrial hubris , nemesis must set in , because progress , like the broom of the sorcerer's apprentice , can no longer be turned off . Defenders of industrial progress are either blind or corrupt if they pretend that they can ...
... industrial hubris , nemesis must set in , because progress , like the broom of the sorcerer's apprentice , can no longer be turned off . Defenders of industrial progress are either blind or corrupt if they pretend that they can ...
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... industrial production . The taboos were tied to the values of a particular society and its mode of production , and it is precisely those that were irrevocably lost in the process of industrialization . It is not necessary , probably ...
... industrial production . The taboos were tied to the values of a particular society and its mode of production , and it is precisely those that were irrevocably lost in the process of industrialization . It is not necessary , probably ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
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