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Limits to medicine:

medical nemesis, the expropriation of health
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Boyars, 1976 - Medical - 294 pages

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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

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Contents

Introduction
3
The Medicalization of Life
39
Introduction
127
Copyright

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TitleLimits to medicine: medical nemesis, the expropriation of health
Open Forum Series
Ideas in progress
AuthorIvan Illich
Editionrevised
PublisherBoyars, 1976
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized3 Jul 2008
ISBN071452512X, 9780714525129
Length294 pages
Subjects › 

Hygiene
Iatrogenic diseases
Medical / General
Medical / Health Care Delivery
Medical care
Medicine
Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
Social medicine
  
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