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In contrast to environmental improvements and modern nonprofessional health
measures, the specifically medical treatment of ... 30 Reuel A. Stallones, in
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measures, the specifically medical treatment of ... 30 Reuel A. Stallones, in
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J. E. Shental, "Multiphasic Screening of the Well Patient," Journal of the American
Medical Association 172 (1960): ... Proceedings of a Symposium Held During the
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The health-care system, without any concern for the feelings of people and for
their health, simply concentrates on the ... His Environment: Biomedical
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The health-care system, without any concern for the feelings of people and for
their health, simply concentrates on the ... His Environment: Biomedical
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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| Title | Limits to medicine |
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| Publisher | Marion Boyars, 1976 |
| ISBN | 0714525138, 9780714525136 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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