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 85
... developed countries has increased from thirty - five years in the eighteenth century to seventy years today . This is due mainly to the reduction of infant mortality in these countries ; for example , in England and Wales the number of ...
... developed countries has increased from thirty - five years in the eighteenth century to seventy years today . This is due mainly to the reduction of infant mortality in these countries ; for example , in England and Wales the number of ...
Page 192
... developed . Primitive hunters , gatherers , and nomads had usually killed them , and peasants had put them into the back room , 40 but now the patriarch appeared as a literary ideal . Wisdom was attributed to him just because of his age ...
... developed . Primitive hunters , gatherers , and nomads had usually killed them , and peasants had put them into the back room , 40 but now the patriarch appeared as a literary ideal . Wisdom was attributed to him just because of his age ...
Page 219
... developed unlimited economic needs in order to pay for interminable therapies , which are usually ineffective , are frequently demeaning and painful , and call more often than not for reclusion in a special milieu . Five faces of ...
... developed unlimited economic needs in order to pay for interminable therapies , which are usually ineffective , are frequently demeaning and painful , and call more often than not for reclusion in a special milieu . Five faces of ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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