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... physician - patient contract when the disease turns from curable to terminal and therefore a " healer contract " comes to an end . Walter Reich , “ The Physician's ' Duty ' to Preserve Life , " Hastings Center Report 5 ( April 1975 ) ...
... physician - patient contract when the disease turns from curable to terminal and therefore a " healer contract " comes to an end . Walter Reich , “ The Physician's ' Duty ' to Preserve Life , " Hastings Center Report 5 ( April 1975 ) ...
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... physicians and healing priests.234 The Arabs honored the physician ; 235 the Jews left health care to the quality of the ghetto or , with a bad conscience , brought in the Arab physician . 236 Medicine's several functions combined in ...
... physicians and healing priests.234 The Arabs honored the physician ; 235 the Jews left health care to the quality of the ghetto or , with a bad conscience , brought in the Arab physician . 236 Medicine's several functions combined in ...
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... physician dispensed , and treats the doctor as just one more common mortal by snatching him into the dance . Baroque death seems to intrude constantly into the doctor's activities , making fun of him while he sells his wares at a fair ...
... physician dispensed , and treats the doctor as just one more common mortal by snatching him into the dance . Baroque death seems to intrude constantly into the doctor's activities , making fun of him while he sells his wares at a fair ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
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