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Page 212
... production , and the perquisites claimed by the bureaucrats who monopolize the stock of knowledge that is applied in the process . The price is the sum of these various rentals , no matter whether it is paid by the consumer out of his ...
... production , and the perquisites claimed by the bureaucrats who monopolize the stock of knowledge that is applied in the process . The price is the sum of these various rentals , no matter whether it is paid by the consumer out of his ...
Page 214
... produce education , motor vehicles produce locomotion , and medicine produces health care . These outputs are staples that have all the characteristics of commodities . Their production costs can be added to or subtracted from the GNP ...
... produce education , motor vehicles produce locomotion , and medicine produces health care . These outputs are staples that have all the characteristics of commodities . Their production costs can be added to or subtracted from the GNP ...
Page 265
... production by the poor for the rich has been replaced by a new kind of labor - intensive , regional , rural autonomy . Beyond a certain level of industrial hubris , nemesis must set in , because progress , like the broom of the ...
... production by the poor for the rich has been replaced by a new kind of labor - intensive , regional , rural autonomy . Beyond a certain level of industrial hubris , nemesis must set in , because progress , like the broom of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
Copyright | |
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The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated Body Deborah Lupton No preview available - 1995 |