Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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Page 131
... traditional framework for habits that can become con- scious in the personal practice of the virtue of hygiene is progressively trammeled by a mechanical system , a medi- cal code by which individuals submit to the instructions ...
... traditional framework for habits that can become con- scious in the personal practice of the virtue of hygiene is progressively trammeled by a mechanical system , a medi- cal code by which individuals submit to the instructions ...
Page 135
... Traditional cultures and technological civilization start from opposite assumptions . In every traditional culture the psychotherapy , belief systems , and drugs needed to with- stand most pain are built into everyday behavior and ...
... Traditional cultures and technological civilization start from opposite assumptions . In every traditional culture the psychotherapy , belief systems , and drugs needed to with- stand most pain are built into everyday behavior and ...
Page 204
... traditional vision of what constitutes health and death . The self - image that gives cohesion to their culture is dissolved , and atomized individuals can now be incorporated into an international mass of highly " socialized " health ...
... traditional vision of what constitutes health and death . The self - image that gives cohesion to their culture is dissolved , and atomized individuals can now be incorporated into an international mass of highly " socialized " health ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
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