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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... Health Service Act of 1946 established access to health- care resources for all those in need as a human right . The need was assumed to be finite and quantifiable , the ballot box the best place to decide the total budget for health ...
... Health Service Act of 1946 established access to health- care resources for all those in need as a human right . The need was assumed to be finite and quantifiable , the ballot box the best place to decide the total budget for health ...
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... health economics , " by means in their way almost as ruthless but generally held to be more acceptable — than the ability to pay . " 58 Until that time health ... Service in Britain has undergone a traumatic change , for complex economic and ...
... health economics , " by means in their way almost as ruthless but generally held to be more acceptable — than the ability to pay . " 58 Until that time health ... Service in Britain has undergone a traumatic change , for complex economic and ...
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... health . In the early 1960s , the British National Health Service still enjoyed a worldwide reputation , particularly among American reformers . The service , created by Albert Beveridge , was based on the assumption that there exists ...
... health . In the early 1960s , the British National Health Service still enjoyed a worldwide reputation , particularly among American reformers . The service , created by Albert Beveridge , was based on the assumption that there exists ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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