Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... autonomous healing . This trend must be recognized and eventually be reversed . Limits to medicine must be something other than professional self - limitation . I will demonstrate that the insistence of the medical guild on its unique ...
... autonomous healing . This trend must be recognized and eventually be reversed . Limits to medicine must be something other than professional self - limitation . I will demonstrate that the insistence of the medical guild on its unique ...
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... autonomous mode towards the total effectiveness with which any major social goal may be achieved , they cannot indicate if this total effectiveness is increasing or decreasing . The number of graduates , for instance , might be ...
... autonomous mode towards the total effectiveness with which any major social goal may be achieved , they cannot indicate if this total effectiveness is increasing or decreasing . The number of graduates , for instance , might be ...
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... autonomy will thus be the result of political action reinforcing an ethical awakening . People will want to limit ... autonomous action will depend , not on new specific goals people share , but on their use of legal and political ...
... autonomy will thus be the result of political action reinforcing an ethical awakening . People will want to limit ... autonomous action will depend , not on new specific goals people share , but on their use of legal and political ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
Copyright | |
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The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated Body Deborah Lupton No preview available - 1995 |