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... kind . It compares 22 countries , noting significant differences in drug - consumption patterns but enormous difficulties in establishing precise comparisons . Therapeutic categories , cost evaluations , and measurements for ...
... kind . It compares 22 countries , noting significant differences in drug - consumption patterns but enormous difficulties in establishing precise comparisons . Therapeutic categories , cost evaluations , and measurements for ...
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... kind of deviance with even minimal common characteristics252 is a hazardous undertaking . The contemporary assignation of sick - roles is of a unique kind . It developed not much more than a generation before Henderson and Parsons ...
... kind of deviance with even minimal common characteristics252 is a hazardous undertaking . The contemporary assignation of sick - roles is of a unique kind . It developed not much more than a generation before Henderson and Parsons ...
Page 140
... kind of disvalue that is pain promotes an exceptional kind of certainty . Just as " my pain " belongs in a unique way only to me , so I am utterly alone with it . I cannot share it . I have no doubt about the reality of the pain ...
... kind of disvalue that is pain promotes an exceptional kind of certainty . Just as " my pain " belongs in a unique way only to me , so I am utterly alone with it . I cannot share it . I have no doubt about the reality of the pain ...
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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 |