Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 44
Page 55
... institutional licensing as a substitute for the licensing of individuals . Under such a system , medical - care institutions would be licensed by the state and would then be free to hire and use personnel as each saw fit . This system ...
... institutional licensing as a substitute for the licensing of individuals . Under such a system , medical - care institutions would be licensed by the state and would then be free to hire and use personnel as each saw fit . This system ...
Page 83
... institutions , the one designed to socialize her among the blind , the other to medicalize her decrepitude . As more old people become dependent on professional services , more people are pushed into specialized institu- tions for the ...
... institutions , the one designed to socialize her among the blind , the other to medicalize her decrepitude . As more old people become dependent on professional services , more people are pushed into specialized institu- tions for the ...
Page 241
... institutions , the more difficult it is to identify equity with equal access and equal benefits.64 Is equity ... institutional care , already being waged in education , is now shaping up in the medical field.65 In contrast to education ...
... institutions , the more difficult it is to identify equity with equal access and equal benefits.64 Is equity ... institutional care , already being waged in education , is now shaping up in the medical field.65 In contrast to education ...
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