Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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... specific purpose for which that sector was created and technically instrumented . Iatrogenesis cannot be understood unless it is seen as the specifically medical manifestation of specific counterproductiv- ity . Specific or paradoxical ...
... specific purpose for which that sector was created and technically instrumented . Iatrogenesis cannot be understood unless it is seen as the specifically medical manifestation of specific counterproductiv- ity . Specific or paradoxical ...
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... specific diseases certified by the doctor.45 Death had paled into a metaphorical figure , and killer diseases had taken his place . The general force of nature that had been celebrated as " death " had turned into a host of specific ...
... specific diseases certified by the doctor.45 Death had paled into a metaphorical figure , and killer diseases had taken his place . The general force of nature that had been celebrated as " death " had turned into a host of specific ...
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... specific counterproductivity of contemporary industry , frustrating overproduction must be clearly distinguished from two other categories of economic burdens with which it is generally confused , namely , declining marginal utility and ...
... specific counterproductivity of contemporary industry , frustrating overproduction must be clearly distinguished from two other categories of economic burdens with which it is generally confused , namely , declining marginal utility and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
Copyright | |
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Alan Berg American Medical Association autonomous become behavior Bibliography Boyars cancer century chap Chicago clients clinical clinical death consumer contemporary cost countries Cuernavaca culture damage dance depend developed deviance diagnosis doctor drug dying economic effective engineering England Journal environment Erwin H ethical experience function Geschichte Hastings Center healer healing health levels Health Service hospital human iatrogenesis iatrogenic iatrogenic disease illness increased individual industrial society institutions International intervention Ivan Illich Journal of Medicine kind limits literature London modern monopoly mort mortality myth National National Health Service nemesis nocebo organization pain Pan-American Health Organization Paris patient percent physician placebo political poor population prescription Press production profession professional recognized responsible result ritual role Science scientific sector sick side-effects siècle Siegfried Giedion social iatrogenesis Sociology specific Stuttgart suffering survival technical therapeutic therapy tion tonsillectomy traditional treatment turned Univ York
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The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated Body Deborah Lupton No preview available - 1995 |