Promise of miracles in the age of uncertainty

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  • Published 20050603
  • ISBN: 9780733314339
  • Extent: 268 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm)

Planets full of bronzed healthy cleanimbed individuals merrily prancing through
their lives meant that the only doctors still in business were the psychiatrists,
simply because no one had discovered a cure for the universe as a whole

or rather the one that did exist had been abolished by the medical doctors.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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