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Page 169
An advanced industrial society is sick-making because it disables people from
coping with their environment and, when they break down, from substituting a "
clinical" prosthesis for the broken relationships. People would rebel against such
an ...
An advanced industrial society is sick-making because it disables people from
coping with their environment and, when they break down, from substituting a "
clinical" prosthesis for the broken relationships. People would rebel against such
an ...
Page 259
In general, people are more the product of their environment than of their genetic
endowment. This environment is being rapidly distorted by industrialization.
Although man has so far shown an extraordinary capacity for adaptation, he has
...
In general, people are more the product of their environment than of their genetic
endowment. This environment is being rapidly distorted by industrialization.
Although man has so far shown an extraordinary capacity for adaptation, he has
...
Page 274
They depend on the spread of responsibility for healthy habits and for the
sociobiological environment. That is, they depend on the dynamic stability of a
culture. The level of public health corresponds to the degree to which the means
and ...
They depend on the spread of responsibility for healthy habits and for the
sociobiological environment. That is, they depend on the dynamic stability of a
culture. The level of public health corresponds to the degree to which the means
and ...
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Contents
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health Open forum |
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Marion Boyars, 1976 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 071452512X, 9780714525129 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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