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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... England Journal of Medicine 289 ( 1973 ) : 1224–9 , shows that surgical rates in Canada in 1968 were 1.8 times greater for men and 1.6 times greater for women than in England . Discretionary operations such as tonsillectomy and ...
... England Journal of Medicine 289 ( 1973 ) : 1224–9 , shows that surgical rates in Canada in 1968 were 1.8 times greater for men and 1.6 times greater for women than in England . Discretionary operations such as tonsillectomy and ...
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... England Journal of Medicine 281 ( 1969 ) : 880–4 , finds three to fourfold variations in regional rates for six common surgical procedures in the U.S.A. The number of surgeons available was found to be the significant predictor in the ...
... England Journal of Medicine 281 ( 1969 ) : 880–4 , finds three to fourfold variations in regional rates for six common surgical procedures in the U.S.A. The number of surgeons available was found to be the significant predictor in the ...
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... England Journal of Medicine 287 ( 1972 ) : 334–8 . An autobiographical account of a medical doctor in such terminal treatment . 219 Hans von Hentig , Vom Ursprung der Henkersmahlzeit ( Tübingen : Mohr , 1958 ) . The medicalization of ...
... England Journal of Medicine 287 ( 1972 ) : 334–8 . An autobiographical account of a medical doctor in such terminal treatment . 219 Hans von Hentig , Vom Ursprung der Henkersmahlzeit ( Tübingen : Mohr , 1958 ) . The medicalization of ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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