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Page 95
Yet there is no evidence that a differential diagnosis based on its results extends
either the life expectancy or the comfort of the patient.179 Most tests are less
murderous and much more commonly performed, but many still involve known
risks ...
Yet there is no evidence that a differential diagnosis based on its results extends
either the life expectancy or the comfort of the patient.179 Most tests are less
murderous and much more commonly performed, but many still involve known
risks ...
Page 96
Worst of all, when people have lived through complex positive laboratory
diagnosis, unharmed or not, they have incurred a high risk of being submitted to
therapy that is odious, painful, crippling, and expensive. No wonder that
physicians tend ...
Worst of all, when people have lived through complex positive laboratory
diagnosis, unharmed or not, they have incurred a high risk of being submitted to
therapy that is odious, painful, crippling, and expensive. No wonder that
physicians tend ...
Page 278
See dying and death defectives: labeling of, 90-1; survival of, 33 Denmark, 66
dental health, 24 depersonalization: of diagnosis and therapy, 30, 214; of values,
victims of, 217-18 deprivation, learned needs and, 219-20 deprofessionalization:
...
See dying and death defectives: labeling of, 90-1; survival of, 33 Denmark, 66
dental health, 24 depersonalization: of diagnosis and therapy, 30, 214; of values,
victims of, 217-18 deprivation, learned needs and, 219-20 deprofessionalization:
...
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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 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Limits to medicine: medical nemesis, the expropriation of health Open Forum Series Ideas in progress |
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Boyars, 1976 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Jul 2008 |
| ISBN | 071452512X, 9780714525129 |
| Length | 294 pages |
| Subjects | › Hygiene Iatrogenic diseases Medical / General Medical / Health Care Delivery Medical care Medicine Social Science / Disease & Health Issues Social medicine |
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