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Page 39
... argued in the 1830s , quackery ought to disappear , but ' it cannot be put down by law ' ; rather , he continued in pious vein , ' the public may be so enlightened as greatly to diminish [ their ] appetite ' for ' the marvellous ...
... argued in the 1830s , quackery ought to disappear , but ' it cannot be put down by law ' ; rather , he continued in pious vein , ' the public may be so enlightened as greatly to diminish [ their ] appetite ' for ' the marvellous ...
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... argued that the patient's purse power , coupled with an enduring ignorance of internal physiological processes , combined to encourage a proliferation of speculative medical systems : the sick expected to be told what was wrong in ...
... argued that the patient's purse power , coupled with an enduring ignorance of internal physiological processes , combined to encourage a proliferation of speculative medical systems : the sick expected to be told what was wrong in ...
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... ( argued Myersbach's camp ) was : does it work ? Which practitioners have the best track record ? In other words , empiricism , far from being a threat to medical standards , was , in reality , their upholder . Elite physicians had ...
... ( argued Myersbach's camp ) was : does it work ? Which practitioners have the best track record ? In other words , empiricism , far from being a threat to medical standards , was , in reality , their upholder . Elite physicians had ...
Contents
List of illustrations | 6 |
Quackery | 15 |
Medical entrepreneurship in the consumer society | 31 |
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