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Review: Limits To Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

User Review  - Marilyn Mcentyre - Goodreads

Ilych can easily be dismissed as a radical, a curmudgeon, or a blowhard by people who don't want to hear his sharp and penetrating critiques of two core social institutions--medicine and education ... Read full review

Review: Limits To Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

User Review  - Tara - Goodreads

Nothing has changed in 30 years Read full review

Review: Limits To Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

User Review - Goodreads

after read this book, you'll think many time to go to hospital or the others medicine institute. the fact, there's no good process for our health by medicine intitute... The medicine intitute just the ...

Review: Limits To Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

User Review  - Megan - Goodreads

There are a few dry, statistics-heavy sections in the book. But I thought the end of the book, Part IV: The Politics of Health, is the clearest presentation I've read yet of Illich's critique of ... Read full review

Review: Limits To Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

User Review  - Eric - Goodreads

In "Mirror of the Past" Illich says the ideas in this book have now become commonplace -- partly due to the book's popularity and influence. Modern medicine can take almost no credit for increases in ... Read full review

Review: Limits To Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

User Review  - Nefize - Goodreads

it is sort of outdated.. but it is still readable.. an important book for the argument of medicalization. Read full review

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