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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... Cost of Hospital Care ( Washington , D.C .: Information Resources , 1971 ) . Hospital costs have outstripped by far the rise in physicians ' fees . The over - all cost of medical care has gone up faster than the average cost of all ...
... Cost of Hospital Care ( Washington , D.C .: Information Resources , 1971 ) . Hospital costs have outstripped by far the rise in physicians ' fees . The over - all cost of medical care has gone up faster than the average cost of all ...
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... costs increased three times faster than the number of people served . In the last four years hospital insurance benefits have almost doubled in cost , and physicians ' fees have increased almost twice as fast as had been planned.48 ...
... costs increased three times faster than the number of people served . In the last four years hospital insurance benefits have almost doubled in cost , and physicians ' fees have increased almost twice as fast as had been planned.48 ...
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... costs are shooting up . 50 The phenomenal rise in cost of health services in the United States has been explained in different ways : some blame irrational planning , 51 others the higher cost of the new gimmicks that people want in ...
... costs are shooting up . 50 The phenomenal rise in cost of health services in the United States has been explained in different ways : some blame irrational planning , 51 others the higher cost of the new gimmicks that people want in ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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