Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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Page 85
... developed countries has increased from thirty - five years in the eighteenth century to seventy years today . This is due mainly to the reduction of infant mortality in these countries ; for example , in England and Wales the number of ...
... developed countries has increased from thirty - five years in the eighteenth century to seventy years today . This is due mainly to the reduction of infant mortality in these countries ; for example , in England and Wales the number of ...
Page 184
... developed in the painting of human faces : the Western portrait of countenance , which tries to represent much more than just the likeness of facial traits . The first portraits , in fact , represent princes and were executed ...
... developed in the painting of human faces : the Western portrait of countenance , which tries to represent much more than just the likeness of facial traits . The first portraits , in fact , represent princes and were executed ...
Page 192
... developed . Primitive hunters , gatherers , and nomads had usually killed them , and peasants had put them into the back room , 40 but now the patriarch appeared as a literary ideal . Wisdom was attributed to him just because of his age ...
... developed . Primitive hunters , gatherers , and nomads had usually killed them , and peasants had put them into the back room , 40 but now the patriarch appeared as a literary ideal . Wisdom was attributed to him just because of his age ...
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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 |