Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... turned health care into a sick - making enterprise is the very intensity of an engineering endeavor that has translated human survival from the performance of organisms into the result of technical manipulation . " Health , " after all ...
... turned health care into a sick - making enterprise is the very intensity of an engineering endeavor that has translated human survival from the performance of organisms into the result of technical manipulation . " Health , " after all ...
Page 43
... turned into a standardized item , a staple ; when all suffering is " hospitalized ” and homes fault . become inhospitable to birth , sickness , and death ; when the language in which people could experience their illness : bodies is turned ...
... turned into a standardized item , a staple ; when all suffering is " hospitalized ” and homes fault . become inhospitable to birth , sickness , and death ; when the language in which people could experience their illness : bodies is turned ...
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... turned into an " untimely " event when it came to those who were not both healthy and old . Now it had become the outcome of specific diseases certified by the doctor.45 Death had paled into a metaphorical figure , and killer diseases ...
... turned into an " untimely " event when it came to those who were not both healthy and old . Now it had become the outcome of specific diseases certified by the doctor.45 Death had paled into a metaphorical figure , and killer diseases ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
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