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Barbara Ehrenreich _ Natural Causes: An Epidemic of
The first time I had a pap smear done, I was so traumatized, I now take prescription Xanax to avoid having panic attacks when I get pap smears done now. And I'm only 24. How many more am I going to have to have for the rest of my life? What am I going to do when I want to have children and every doctor wants to shove his/her fingers and tools inside me?
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Barbara Ehrenreich _ This Land Is Their Land:
Just as welfare was said to "cause poverty," the experts may soon announce that Medicare causes baldness and that Social Security is a risk factor for osteoporosis: the correlations are undeniable.
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Barbara Ehrenreich _ Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A
WITCHES LIVED AND WERE BURNED LONG BEFORE the development of modern medical technology. The great majority of them were lay healers serving the peasant population, and their suppression marks one of the opening struggles in the history of man's suppression of women as healers. The other side of the suppression of witches as healers was the creation of a new male medical profession, under the protection and patronage of the ruling classes. This new European medical profession played an important role in the witch hunts, supporting the witches' persecutors with "medical" reasoning:
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Barbara Ehrenreich _ Sonríe o muere. La trampa del
Hasta el ámbito académico, que uno podía considerar un reducto seguro para los gruñones y misántropos, está empezando a sufrir las incursiones del pensamiento positivo.
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Barbara Ehrenreich _ Sonríe o muere. La trampa del
En 2004, un estudio puso de manifiesto que el optimismo no aportaba beneficio alguno, en términos de supervivencia, a los que sufrían cáncer de pulmón,
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Barbara Ehrenreich _ Sonríe o muere. La trampa del
Lo primero que hay que tener en cuenta es que nuestro sistema inmunológico está diseñado para detectar invasiones externas y pasar por alto a nuestras propias células. Con unas pocas excepciones, el sistema inmunológico no parece reconocer los cánceres que desarrolla el individuo como intrusos, porque de hecho son parte de él mismo."17
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Barbara Ehrenreich _ For Her Own Good: Two
It was doubtless true," she later wrote "that I was 'Weary of myself and sick of asking What I am and what I ought to be.
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Barbara Ehrenreich _ Nickel and Dimed: On (Not)
But apparently you don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the "cruel irony" that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: "The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents.
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Barbara Ehrenreich _ Natural Causes: An Epidemic of
Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life.
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Barbara Ehrenreich _ Nickel and Dimed: On (Not)
Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, and the thought that abortion is wasted on the unborn must show on my face, because his mother finally tells him to stop.
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Barbara Ehrenreich _ Dancing in the Streets: A
To this day, and no doubt for good reasons, suffering remains the almost exclusive preoccupation of professional psychology. Journals in the field have published forty-five thousand articles in the last thirty years on depression, but only four hundred on joy.40
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Barbara Ehrenreich _ Bright-Sided: How the
Just as layoffs were making a mockery of the team concept, employees were urged to find camaraderie and a sense of collective purpose at the microlevel of the "team". And the less teamlike the overall organization became with the threat of continuous downsizing, the more management insisted on individual devotion to these largely fictional units.
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