The first task of the doctor is... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated... (Michel Foucault)

The first task of the doctor is... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated...

Michel Foucault

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