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Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health Ivan Illich. visited upon mortals who infringe on those prerogatives the gods enviously guard for themselves . Nemesis was the inevitable punishment for attempts to be a hero rather than a ...
Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health Ivan Illich. visited upon mortals who infringe on those prerogatives the gods enviously guard for themselves . Nemesis was the inevitable punishment for attempts to be a hero rather than a ...
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... Nemesis , the envy of the gods . Industrialized Nemesis Prometheus was hero , not Everyman . Driven by radical greed ( pleonexia ) , he trespassed beyond the limits of man ( aitia and mesotes ) and in unbounded presumption ( hubris ) ...
... Nemesis , the envy of the gods . Industrialized Nemesis Prometheus was hero , not Everyman . Driven by radical greed ( pleonexia ) , he trespassed beyond the limits of man ( aitia and mesotes ) and in unbounded presumption ( hubris ) ...
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Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health Ivan Illich. catastrophe by depressing the use of marginal lands . Famine will increase until the trend towards capital - inten- sive food production by the poor for the rich has been replaced ...
Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health Ivan Illich. catastrophe by depressing the use of marginal lands . Famine will increase until the trend towards capital - inten- sive food production by the poor for the rich has been replaced ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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