What causes medicine—the modern healthcare system—to be identified as an "institution of social control"?
1. Placing attention on health issues that are considered preventable diseases.
2. Debating the issues of who has the right to stop medical treatment
3. Limiting the use medications
4. Limiting the use of technology
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Explanation: 1. Social control emerges when health education advice, such as stop smoking, is ignored.
2. The right to stop medical treatment is a personal issue.
3. Modern medicine can control what medications are available for legal consumption.
4. Modern medicine can control what technological tests and treatments can be used.
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