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Bureaucracy

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  • A family is discovered dead from starvation after waiting for welfare assistance. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • A physician, enema in hand, quotes Hippocrates on the importance of the stomach in the 'administration' of the body; a green-hued patient cowers behind. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
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    A physician, enema in hand, quotes Hippocrates on the importance of the stomach in the 'administration' of the body; a green-hued patient cowers behind. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.

    Losques, Daniel Thouroude de, 1880-1915. | Date: 1910 | Reference: 17202i
    Part of: Les médications anti-goutteuses
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    American social patterns : studies of race relations, popular heroes, voting, union democracy, and government bureaucracy / selected and edited by William Petersen.

    | Date: 1956
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    A family is discovered dead from starvation after waiting for welfare assistance. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.

    Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938. | Reference: 17067i
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    The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.

    Henriot, 1857-1933. | Date: 1907 | Reference: 17268i
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    A little man attempts to claim his pension but is confronted by nonsensical bureaucracy. Colour process print after H. Nymark, 1977.

    Nymark, Harald, 1925- | Date: c. 1980 | Reference: 18197i
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