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44 In the area of environmental degradation a conflict of two opposed
approaches has already surfaced. On the one hand there are people who, like
quinn, James B. Next big industry: environmental improvement, in: Harvard
Business Review ...
44 In the area of environmental degradation a conflict of two opposed
approaches has already surfaced. On the one hand there are people who, like
quinn, James B. Next big industry: environmental improvement, in: Harvard
Business Review ...
Page 81
Without relinquishing the view of medicine as an engineering endeavour, these
critics assert that medical strategies fail because they concentrate too much effort
on sickness and too little on changing the environment that makes people sick.
Without relinquishing the view of medicine as an engineering endeavour, these
critics assert that medical strategies fail because they concentrate too much effort
on sickness and too little on changing the environment that makes people sick.
Page 82
Instead of manipulating the sick, they re-design the environment to ensure a
healthier population.140 Health care, as environmental hygienic engineering,
works within categories different from those of the clinical scientist. Its focus is
human ...
Instead of manipulating the sick, they re-design the environment to ensure a
healthier population.140 Health care, as environmental hygienic engineering,
works within categories different from those of the clinical scientist. Its focus is
human ...
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Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
SOCIAL IATROGENESIS | 26 |
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| Title | Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health Ideas in progress Open forum, ISSN 0030-3429 Open forum/ideas in progress |
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Calder & Boyars, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2011 |
| ISBN | 0714510963, 9780714510965 |
| Length | 183 pages |
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