Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
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Page 41
... turned into a standardized item , a staple ; when all suffering is " hospitalized " and homes become inhospitable to birth , sickness , and death ; when the language in which people could experience their bodies is turned into ...
... turned into a standardized item , a staple ; when all suffering is " hospitalized " and homes become inhospitable to birth , sickness , and death ; when the language in which people could experience their bodies is turned into ...
Page 160
... turned the human body into clockworks and placed a new distance , not only between soul and body , but also between the patient's complaint and the physician's eye . Within this mechanized framework , pain turned into a red light and ...
... turned the human body into clockworks and placed a new distance , not only between soul and body , but also between the patient's complaint and the physician's eye . Within this mechanized framework , pain turned into a red light and ...
Page 263
... turned the hero into an immortal reminder of inescapable cosmic retaliation . The social nature of nemesis has now changed . With the industrialization of desire and the engineering of corre- sponding ritual responses , hubris has ...
... turned the hero into an immortal reminder of inescapable cosmic retaliation . The social nature of nemesis has now changed . With the industrialization of desire and the engineering of corre- sponding ritual responses , hubris has ...
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 |