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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... patient is healed ; most sickness leaves no taint of deviance or disorderly conduct on the patient's reputation . No one is interested in ex - allergics or ex - appendectomy patients , just as no one will be remembered as an ex ...
... patient is healed ; most sickness leaves no taint of deviance or disorderly conduct on the patient's reputation . No one is interested in ex - allergics or ex - appendectomy patients , just as no one will be remembered as an ex ...
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... patient.186 At a cost of between $ 500 and $ 2,000 per day , 187 celebrants in white and blue envelop what remains of the patient in antiseptic smells.188 The 184 Like policemen in pursuit of crime prevention , doctors are now given the ...
... patient.186 At a cost of between $ 500 and $ 2,000 per day , 187 celebrants in white and blue envelop what remains of the patient in antiseptic smells.188 The 184 Like policemen in pursuit of crime prevention , doctors are now given the ...
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The Expropriation of Health Ivan Illich. to withdraw when death shows on his patient's face209 has made him into an agent of evasion or outright dissimula- tion.210 The patient's unwillingness to die on his own makes him pathetically ...
The Expropriation of Health Ivan Illich. to withdraw when death shows on his patient's face209 has made him into an agent of evasion or outright dissimula- tion.210 The patient's unwillingness to die on his own makes him pathetically ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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