Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health"The medical establishment has become a major threat to health. The disabling impact of professional control over medicine has reached the proportions of an epidemic. Iatrogenesis, the name for this new epidemic, comes from iatros, the Greek word for physician, and genesis, meaning origin. Discussion of the disease of medical progress has moved up on the agendas of medical conferences, researchers concentrate on the sick-making powers of diagnosis and therapy, and reports on paradoxical damage caused by cures for sickness take up increasing space in medical dope-sheets [...] The public has been alerted to the perplexity and uncertainty of the best among its hygienic caretakers [...] This book argues that panic is out of place. Thoughtful public discussion of the iatrogenic pandemic, beginning with an insistence upon demystification of all medical matters, will not be dangerous to the commonweal."-- from Introduction. |
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Page 122
... clients who are simultaneously cast in several roles during every contact they have with the health establishment . They are turned into patients whom medicine tests and repairs , into administered citizens whose healthy behavior a ...
... clients who are simultaneously cast in several roles during every contact they have with the health establishment . They are turned into patients whom medicine tests and repairs , into administered citizens whose healthy behavior a ...
Page 235
... client . The purveyor rather than his clients or political boss deter- mines the size of the package . The patient is reduced to an object - his body - being repaired ; he is no longer a subject being helped to heal . If he is allowed ...
... client . The purveyor rather than his clients or political boss deter- mines the size of the package . The patient is reduced to an object - his body - being repaired ; he is no longer a subject being helped to heal . If he is allowed ...
Page 254
... client has been resorbed into a vague sense of power extending over all tasks and clients of all colleagues . Medical science applied by medical scientists provides the correct treatment , regardless of whether it results in a cure , or ...
... client has been resorbed into a vague sense of power extending over all tasks and clients of all colleagues . Medical science applied by medical scientists provides the correct treatment , regardless of whether it results in a cure , or ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
Copyright | |
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