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... modern nonprofessional health measures , the specifically medical treatment of people is never significantly related to a decline in the compound disease burden or to a rise in life expectancy.29 Neither the proportion of doctors in a ...
... modern nonprofessional health measures , the specifically medical treatment of people is never significantly related to a decline in the compound disease burden or to a rise in life expectancy.29 Neither the proportion of doctors in a ...
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... modern city consult Gerald F. Pyle . " The Geography of Health Care , ” in John Melton Hunter , The Geography of Health and Disease , Studies in Geography no . 6 ( Chapel Hill , N.C .: Univ . of North Carolina Press , 1974 ) , a spatial ...
... modern city consult Gerald F. Pyle . " The Geography of Health Care , ” in John Melton Hunter , The Geography of Health and Disease , Studies in Geography no . 6 ( Chapel Hill , N.C .: Univ . of North Carolina Press , 1974 ) , a spatial ...
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... Modern Medicine , " Social Science and Medicine 6 ( October 1972 ) : 537-44 . He calls for a fourth category in the conceptual tools of modern medicine : the recognition of breakdown . So far medicine has developed three major concepts ...
... Modern Medicine , " Social Science and Medicine 6 ( October 1972 ) : 537-44 . He calls for a fourth category in the conceptual tools of modern medicine : the recognition of breakdown . So far medicine has developed three major concepts ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
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