Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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Page 63
... culture can become the prey of a pharmaceutical invasion . Each culture has its poisons , its remedies , its placebos , and its ritual settings for their administration.85 Most of these are destined for the healthy rather than for the ...
... culture can become the prey of a pharmaceutical invasion . Each culture has its poisons , its remedies , its placebos , and its ritual settings for their administration.85 Most of these are destined for the healthy rather than for the ...
Page 128
... culture and health coincide . Each culture gives shape to a unique Gestalt of health and to a unique conformation of attitudes towards pain , disease , impairment , and death , each of which designates a class of that human performance ...
... culture and health coincide . Each culture gives shape to a unique Gestalt of health and to a unique conformation of attitudes towards pain , disease , impairment , and death , each of which designates a class of that human performance ...
Page 129
... culture seen with the blinkers of the behavioral technician : Marion Pearsall , Medical Behavioral Science : A Selected Bibliography of Cultural Anthropology , Social Psychology and Sociology in Medicine ( Lexington : Univ . of Kentucky ...
... culture seen with the blinkers of the behavioral technician : Marion Pearsall , Medical Behavioral Science : A Selected Bibliography of Cultural Anthropology , Social Psychology and Sociology in Medicine ( Lexington : Univ . of Kentucky ...
Contents
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 |