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... industrial society . Only people who have recovered the ability for mutual self - care and have learned to combine it with dependence on the application of contemporary technology will be ready to limit the industrial mode of production ...
... industrial society . Only people who have recovered the ability for mutual self - care and have learned to combine it with dependence on the application of contemporary technology will be ready to limit the industrial mode of production ...
Page 169
... industry . An advanced industrial society is sick - making because it disables people from coping with their environment and , when they break down , from substituting a " clinical " prosthesis for the broken relationships . People ...
... industry . An advanced industrial society is sick - making because it disables people from coping with their environment and , when they break down , from substituting a " clinical " prosthesis for the broken relationships . People ...
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... technical order . . . . I do not believe that men were inherently more moral in the past when the moral order predominated over the technical . " rural nations . Within an industrial society , medical inter- 203 Death Against Death.
... technical order . . . . I do not believe that men were inherently more moral in the past when the moral order predominated over the technical . " rural nations . Within an industrial society , medical inter- 203 Death Against Death.
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