Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... scientific guardians who would control the world as their ward.83 The Scientific Organization of Life Belief in medicine as an applied science generates a fourth kind of countermeasure to iatrogenesis which inevitably increases the ...
... scientific guardians who would control the world as their ward.83 The Scientific Organization of Life Belief in medicine as an applied science generates a fourth kind of countermeasure to iatrogenesis which inevitably increases the ...
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... scientific standards in medical re- search and social organization argue that pathogenic medicine is due to the overwhelming number of bad doctors let loose on society . Fewer decision - makers , more carefully screened , better trained ...
... scientific standards in medical re- search and social organization argue that pathogenic medicine is due to the overwhelming number of bad doctors let loose on society . Fewer decision - makers , more carefully screened , better trained ...
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... scientific principles as its theology and technologists as acolytes.86 As an enterprise , medicine is now concerned less with the empirical art of healing the curable and much more with the rational approach to the salvation of mankind ...
... scientific principles as its theology and technologists as acolytes.86 As an enterprise , medicine is now concerned less with the empirical art of healing the curable and much more with the rational approach to the salvation of mankind ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
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