Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 82
Page 174
Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health Ivan Illich. 5 Death Against Death Death as Commodity In every society the dominant image of death determines the prevalent concept of health . Such an image , the culturally conditioned ...
Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health Ivan Illich. 5 Death Against Death Death as Commodity In every society the dominant image of death determines the prevalent concept of health . Such an image , the culturally conditioned ...
Page 179
... death might be a neighbor who , in envy , looks at you with an evil eye , or it might be a witch , an ancestor who comes to pick you up , or the black cat that crosses your path.11 Throughout the Christian ... death 179 Death Against Death.
... death might be a neighbor who , in envy , looks at you with an evil eye , or it might be a witch , an ancestor who comes to pick you up , or the black cat that crosses your path.11 Throughout the Christian ... death 179 Death Against Death.
Page 205
... deaths , each one of which can be banned , at a price . Instead of modernizing people's skills for self - care , they preach the ideal of hospital death . By their ministration they urge the peasants to an unending search for the good death ...
... deaths , each one of which can be banned , at a price . Instead of modernizing people's skills for self - care , they preach the ideal of hospital death . By their ministration they urge the peasants to an unending search for the good death ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alan Berg American Medical Association autonomous become behavior Bibliography Boyars cancer century chap Chicago clients clinical clinical death consumer contemporary cost countries Cuernavaca culture damage dance depend developed deviance diagnosis doctor drug dying economic effective engineering England Journal environment Erwin H ethical experience function Geschichte Hastings Center healer healing health levels Health Service hospital human iatrogenesis iatrogenic iatrogenic disease illness increased individual industrial society institutions intervention Ivan Illich Journal of Medicine kind limits literature London modern mort mortality myth National National Health Service nemesis nocebo organization pain Pan-American Health Organization Paris patient percent physician placebo political poor population prescription Press production profession professional recognized responsible result ritual role Science scientific sector sickness side-effects siècle Siegfried Giedion social iatrogenesis Sociology specific Stuttgart suffering survival technical therapeutic therapy tion tonsillectomy traditional treatment turned Univ York