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 109
... myth - making ceremonies.227 The separate cults of education , transportation , and mass communication promote , under different names , the same social myth which Voeglin228 describes as contempo- rary gnosis . Common to a gnostic ...
... myth - making ceremonies.227 The separate cults of education , transportation , and mass communication promote , under different names , the same social myth which Voeglin228 describes as contempo- rary gnosis . Common to a gnostic ...
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... myth according to which technical progress demands the solution of human problems by the application of scientific principles , the myth of benefit through an increase in the specialization of labor , through multiplica- tion of arcane ...
... myth according to which technical progress demands the solution of human problems by the application of scientific principles , the myth of benefit through an increase in the specialization of labor , through multiplica- tion of arcane ...
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... myth has fulfilled the function of setting limits to the materialization of greedy , envious , murderous dreams . Myth assured the common man of his safety on this third frontier if he kept within its bounds . Myth guaranteed disaster ...
... myth has fulfilled the function of setting limits to the materialization of greedy , envious , murderous dreams . Myth assured the common man of his safety on this third frontier if he kept within its bounds . Myth guaranteed disaster ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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