Titlebook: Medicine Out of Control; The Anatomy of a Mal Richard Taylor Textbook 1979Latest edition Richard Taylor 1979 adoption.death.diagnosis.Ethos

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Medical Imperialism,ers with the acquisition and extension of empires, was far from disparaging, for it carried with it the tacit recognition of the function of imperialism in the spreading of ‘civilization’ and religion to the ignorant and heathen. In the twentieth century, imperialism is seen for what it is: the econ

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Over-investigation,stigation’. The medical establishment has become so preoccupied with its new sophisticated diagnostic gadgetry that it appears that it has forgotten the priority of . in the management of a patient’s illness. This is not to say that diagnosis is not important, it is; but many of the tests performed are superfluous and irrelevant to this task.

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Technology in Medicine,e same fate by a deft frontal lobotomy on the computer’s memory bank. This is a most flagrant form of technology out of control but there are other, more subtle, but no less pernicious, ways in which technology dominates its human creators.

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Patientization of the Population,ich do afflict modern man, the medical establishment have, because of their clinical and scientific orientation, turned these diseases into individual biological and psychological problems which are destined to be dealt with on a one-to-one basis within the doctor-patient relationship.

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Medical Imperialism,omic exploitation of the under-developed nations of the world by the rich industrialized powers. ‘Medical imperialism’, a term coined by Schreier & Berger. in 1974, is an appropriate description of the behaviour of the modern medical-industrial complex of the rich nations in its relations with the poor countries of the underdeveloped world.

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The Over-selling of Modern Medicine,rring diseases of man has been greatly over-sold. Likewise the contribution of medical science to the general lowering of death rates that industrialized society has experienced over the last 150 years has been greatly overemphasized.

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