“Doctors and “consumers” are becoming locked within a fantasy that everyone has something wrong with them, everyone and everything can be cured.”

— Roy Porter

Source: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997), p. 14

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British historian 1946–2002

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