Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health"The medical establishment has become a major threat to health. The disabling impact of professional control over medicine has reached the proportions of an epidemic. Iatrogenesis, the name for this new epidemic, comes from iatros, the Greek word for physician, and genesis, meaning origin. Discussion of the disease of medical progress has moved up on the agendas of medical conferences, researchers concentrate on the sick-making powers of diagnosis and therapy, and reports on paradoxical damage caused by cures for sickness take up increasing space in medical dope-sheets [...] The public has been alerted to the perplexity and uncertainty of the best among its hygienic caretakers [...] This book argues that panic is out of place. Thoughtful public discussion of the iatrogenic pandemic, beginning with an insistence upon demystification of all medical matters, will not be dangerous to the commonweal."-- from Introduction. |
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Page 177
... dances seems to have changed : 6 from an encounter between the living and those who were already dead , it was trans ... dance with a corpse . Each partner is a mirror image of the other in dress and feature . In the shape of his body ...
... dances seems to have changed : 6 from an encounter between the living and those who were already dead , it was trans ... dance with a corpse . Each partner is a mirror image of the other in dress and feature . In the shape of his body ...
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... Dance of Death , ” Annals of Medical History ( new series ) 2 ( July 1930 ) : 350–71 ; 2 ( September 1930 ) : 453–69 ; 2 ( November 1930 ) : 697–710 ; 3 ( January 1931 ) : 75–109 ; 3 ( March 1931 ) : 134–65 . Deals exclusively with the ...
... Dance of Death , ” Annals of Medical History ( new series ) 2 ( July 1930 ) : 350–71 ; 2 ( September 1930 ) : 453–69 ; 2 ( November 1930 ) : 697–710 ; 3 ( January 1931 ) : 75–109 ; 3 ( March 1931 ) : 134–65 . Deals exclusively with the ...
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... dance with his or her mirror - image , Euro- pean death emerged as an agent independent of another's will , an inexorable force of nature that men and women had to face on their own . The imminence of death was an exquisite and constant ...
... dance with his or her mirror - image , Euro- pean death emerged as an agent independent of another's will , an inexorable force of nature that men and women had to face on their own . The imminence of death was an exquisite and constant ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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