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... death , no matter what medical service was needed for this purpose . In an earlier epoch , death had carried the hour glass . In woodcuts , both skeleton and onlooker grin when the victim refuses death . Now the middle class seized the ...
... death , no matter what medical service was needed for this purpose . In an earlier epoch , death had carried the hour glass . In woodcuts , both skeleton and onlooker grin when the victim refuses death . Now the middle class seized the ...
Page 140
... death . The new powers attributed to the profession gave rise to the new status of the clinician . While the city ... clinical colleague in town . While ' timely ' death had originated in the emerging class consciousness of the bourgeois , ' ...
... death . The new powers attributed to the profession gave rise to the new status of the clinician . While the city ... clinical colleague in town . While ' timely ' death had originated in the emerging class consciousness of the bourgeois , ' ...
Page 141
... death while undergoing treat- ment by clinically trained doctors came to be perceived , for the first time , as a civil right . Old age medical care was written into ... Clinical Death, page 139 Trade Union Claims to a Natural Death, page.
... death while undergoing treat- ment by clinically trained doctors came to be perceived , for the first time , as a civil right . Old age medical care was written into ... Clinical Death, page 139 Trade Union Claims to a Natural Death, page.
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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