Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... measure of the confusion delivered by the news media , the incom- petence fostered by educators , or the time - loss represented by a more powerful car . Specific counterproductivity is an unwanted side - effect of increasing ...
... measure of the confusion delivered by the news media , the incom- petence fostered by educators , or the time - loss represented by a more powerful car . Specific counterproductivity is an unwanted side - effect of increasing ...
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... Measure in antiquity was related to virtue and proportion , not to operational verification . On the prehistoric Indo - Germanic semantic field which includes both measure and medicine see Emile Benveniste , “ Médecine et la notion de ...
... Measure in antiquity was related to virtue and proportion , not to operational verification . On the prehistoric Indo - Germanic semantic field which includes both measure and medicine see Emile Benveniste , “ Médecine et la notion de ...
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... measures what the purchaser is willing to spend for whatever he gets ; externalities indicate what society will tolerate ... measure as time - consum- ing acceleration of traffic , static in communications , training for well - rounded ...
... measures what the purchaser is willing to spend for whatever he gets ; externalities indicate what society will tolerate ... measure as time - consum- ing acceleration of traffic , static in communications , training for well - rounded ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
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