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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Page 97
... individual is subordi- nated to the greater " needs " of the whole , preventive procedures become compulsory , 184 and the right of the patient to withhold consent to his own treatment vanishes as the doctor argues that he must submit ...
... individual is subordi- nated to the greater " needs " of the whole , preventive procedures become compulsory , 184 and the right of the patient to withhold consent to his own treatment vanishes as the doctor argues that he must submit ...
Page 169
... individual's body is a surreptitious and amoral way of blaming the victim . The physician , himself a member of the dominating class , judges that the individual does not fit into an environment that has been engineered and is ...
... individual's body is a surreptitious and amoral way of blaming the victim . The physician , himself a member of the dominating class , judges that the individual does not fit into an environment that has been engineered and is ...
Page 233
... Individuals inherit an initial stock , which can be increased by investment in health capitalization through the ... individual's " healthy time " can thus be viewed as a decisive indicator of his value to the community as a producer ...
... Individuals inherit an initial stock , which can be increased by investment in health capitalization through the ... individual's " healthy time " can thus be viewed as a decisive indicator of his value to the community as a producer ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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