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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... Population Studies 16 ( 1962 ) : 94–122 . Edwin Chadwick , Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain , 1842 , ed . M. W. Flinn ( Chicago : Aldine , 1965 ) , concluded a century and a half ago that ...
... Population Studies 16 ( 1962 ) : 94–122 . Edwin Chadwick , Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain , 1842 , ed . M. W. Flinn ( Chicago : Aldine , 1965 ) , concluded a century and a half ago that ...
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... population who married increased . Discrimination against the illegitimate combined with restricted access to marriage may have served to control population . This hypothesis is reinforced in J.-L. Flandrin , “ Contraception , mariage ...
... population who married increased . Discrimination against the illegitimate combined with restricted access to marriage may have served to control population . This hypothesis is reinforced in J.-L. Flandrin , “ Contraception , mariage ...
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... population who are college graduates , labor leaders , political party officials , and members of families who have access to services either through money or simply through connections . These few receive costly treatment , often from ...
... population who are college graduates , labor leaders , political party officials , and members of families who have access to services either through money or simply through connections . These few receive costly treatment , often from ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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