Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... intervention for cervical cancer demonstrably increases the five - year sur- vival rate . Some skin - cancer treatment is highly effective . But there is little evidence of effective treatment of most other cancers.40 The five - year ...
... intervention for cervical cancer demonstrably increases the five - year sur- vival rate . Some skin - cancer treatment is highly effective . But there is little evidence of effective treatment of most other cancers.40 The five - year ...
Page 107
... intervention in the physical and biochemical make - up of the patient or of his environment is not , and never has been , the sole function of medical institutions.222 The removal of pathogens and the application of remedies ( effective ...
... intervention in the physical and biochemical make - up of the patient or of his environment is not , and never has been , the sole function of medical institutions.222 The removal of pathogens and the application of remedies ( effective ...
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... intervention of God . No figure of “ a ” death appears at the deathbed , just an angel and a devil struggling over the soul escaping from the mouth of the dying . Only during the fifteenth century were the conditions ripe for a change ...
... intervention of God . No figure of “ a ” death appears at the deathbed , just an angel and a devil struggling over the soul escaping from the mouth of the dying . Only during the fifteenth century were the conditions ripe for a change ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
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