The Cultural Crisis of Modern MedicineTwelve essays examine aspects of medical care viewed as science and as social interaction, arguing that health care systems in advanced capitalistic societies function as instruments of domination and indoctrination |
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Contents
The Cultural Crisis of Modern | 1 |
THE SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF MEDICINE SOME | 37 |
Medicine as an Institution of Social Control | 80 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Cultural Crisis of Modern Medicine |
| Editor | John Ehrenreich |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Press, 1978 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | Jan 28, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0853454388, 9780853454380 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues |
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