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Page 128
It implies performance according to a set of control mechanisms: plans, recipes,
rules, and instructions, all of which govern personal behavior.5 To a large extent
culture and health coincide. Each culture gives shape to a unique Gestalt of ...
It implies performance according to a set of control mechanisms: plans, recipes,
rules, and instructions, all of which govern personal behavior.5 To a large extent
culture and health coincide. Each culture gives shape to a unique Gestalt of ...
Page 129
He claims that 95% of the ethnographic (and also anthropological) literature on
health-enhancing behavior and on the beliefs underlying it deals with curing and
not with the maintenance and expansion of health. For literature on medical ...
He claims that 95% of the ethnographic (and also anthropological) literature on
health-enhancing behavior and on the beliefs underlying it deals with curing and
not with the maintenance and expansion of health. For literature on medical ...
Page 260
As the health-delivery system continually fails to meet the demands made upon it,
conditions now classified as illness may soon develop into aspects of criminal
deviance and asocial behavior. The behavioral therapy used on convicts in the ...
As the health-delivery system continually fails to meet the demands made upon it,
conditions now classified as illness may soon develop into aspects of criminal
deviance and asocial behavior. The behavioral therapy used on convicts in the ...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Limits to medicine |
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| Publisher | Marion Boyars, 1976 |
| ISBN | 0714525138, 9780714525136 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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