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58 Until that time health care was kept below 6 percent of GNP, 10 percent of
public spending. Private practice had shrunk from half of all care to 4 percent.
Direct charges to patients were kept at a phenomenally low 5 percent of the cost.
58 Until that time health care was kept below 6 percent of GNP, 10 percent of
public spending. Private practice had shrunk from half of all care to 4 percent.
Direct charges to patients were kept at a phenomenally low 5 percent of the cost.
Page 104
Of those admitted with a fatal condition to the average British clinic, 10 percent
died on the day of arrival, 30 percent within a week, 75 percent within a month,
and 97 percent within three months.212 In homes for terminal care, 56 percent
were ...
Of those admitted with a fatal condition to the average British clinic, 10 percent
died on the day of arrival, 30 percent within a week, 75 percent within a month,
and 97 percent within three months.212 In homes for terminal care, 56 percent
were ...
Page 222
It was not predicted that soon, in a regional screening, only sixty-seven out of one
thousand people would be found completely fit and that 50 percent would be
referred to a doctor, while according to another study, one in six people screened
...
It was not predicted that soon, in a regional screening, only sixty-seven out of one
thousand people would be found completely fit and that 50 percent would be
referred to a doctor, while according to another study, one in six people screened
...
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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 |
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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