Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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Page 132
... civilization is planned and organized to kill pain , to eliminate sickness , and to abolish the need for an art of suffering and of dying . This progressive flattening out of personal , virtuous performance constitutes a new goal which ...
... civilization is planned and organized to kill pain , to eliminate sickness , and to abolish the need for an art of suffering and of dying . This progressive flattening out of personal , virtuous performance constitutes a new goal which ...
Page 133
... civilization colonizes any traditional culture , it transforms the experience of pain.1 The same nervous stimulation that I shall call " pain sensation " will result in a distinct experience , depending not only on personality but also ...
... civilization colonizes any traditional culture , it transforms the experience of pain.1 The same nervous stimulation that I shall call " pain sensation " will result in a distinct experience , depending not only on personality but also ...
Page 158
... civilization . For Rousseau's followers the sickness seen in hospitals was man - made , like all forms of social injustice , and it thrived among the self - indulgent and those whom they had impoverished . " In the hospital , sickness ...
... civilization . For Rousseau's followers the sickness seen in hospitals was man - made , like all forms of social injustice , and it thrived among the self - indulgent and those whom they had impoverished . " In the hospital , sickness ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated Body Deborah Lupton No preview available - 1995 |