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Daily Mirror , 112

Damaged Goods (Brieux), 149

Damaged Lives , 127

Danish study, 289

Dannemeyer, William E., 201

Davis, Peter, 227

Death rate. See Mortality rates

Death's Dispensary (Pinwell), 182 (fig. 8)

Decriminalization, 307

Dedicating beds, 332 -33

Definition of disease, 14 -15

Defoe, Daniel, 91

Deforestation, 35

Deinstitutionalization, 13

Delinquency, 66 n 112

Demedicalization of homosexuality, 13

Department of Employment, 114

Department of Health, 115 ;

British, 7 ;

Roman, 37 .

See also Board of Health, New York

Deprivation and sickness, 22 -23

Deregulation, 325

Detention, 8

Deviance, 21 -22, 28 ;

labeling of, 12 -13;

and psychiatry, 23

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), 12 , 325

Diagnostic categories, 12 -13

Dialysis, 320

Diet, 17

Dildo, 288

Dillon, Tim, 210 (fig. 3)

Diphtheria:

antitoxin, 21 ;

and laboratory research, 20 -21

Dirt, 64 n89, 69 , 100

Discover , 206 , 222

Discrimination:

against AIDS victims, 153 -54;

against gays, 156 ;

and HIV positive test, 158 -59;

and polio, 58 ;

and screening, 160

Disease:

definition of, 14 -15, 23 ;

definition of and health care policy, 17 ;

as rationale for reimbursement, 24 ;

and social criticism, 15

Disease-specific case management, 334 -35

Disposal of dead, 88

Distribution:

of free sterile needles, 264 n 150 (see also Sterile needles for intravenous drug users);

of medical care, 16

Distrust, public, 164

DNA, 203

Donors of infection, 209

Douglas, Colin:

The Intern 's Tale , 190 -92

Dowdle, Walter, 162

DRGs. See Diagnostic-related groups

Drug "abusers." See Intravenous drug users; Substance abuse; names of specific substances

Druid Hill Health Center, 132

Drunkenness, 46 -47, 66 n112.

See also Alcohol; Intemperance; Life-style; Sin; Substance abuse

Duncan, Andrew, 117 n8

Duplicity:

and female body, 236 n4;

and venereal disease, 236 n5

Dutch study, 287 -88

"Duty of the Profession to Womanhood, the," 149

Dynamic psychiatry, 31 n17

"Dynasty," 155


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