Abstract
I have mentioned in an earlier chapter that while much has been written on the benefits of preventive health care, it is still the dramatic effects of advanced technology that support most of our large health-care treatment centers. Many people seek to replace and/ or restore worn-out parts of their body, and there is the hope of regaining one’s health when the effects of extreme wear and tear have diminished the quality of one’s life.
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Joan Borysenko, Minding The Body, Mending the Mind (Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1987), cover statement.
Janny Scott, “Premature infants,” Los Angeles Times (December 31, 1990).
Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 35.
Ibid., pp. 52–53.
Ibid., pp. 162, 165–166.
Sally Squires, “From mouths of babes, insights,” Los Angeles Times (December 13, 1989), p. E20.
Lee Salk, “Growing up mentally fit,” Blue Print for Health—Blue Cross Association (Illinois, 1974), pp. 18–25.
Elaine Scarry, Body in Pain, pp. 35.
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Friedman, A.M. (1992). Preventing Chronic Pain. In: Treating Chronic Pain. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5968-3_17
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