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 128
... responsible for my behavior in suffering are correlated . Relief from this responsibility correlates with a decline in health . 6 It is not easy to study medical culture without a straitjacket . F. L. Dunn , " Traditional Asian Medicine ...
... responsible for my behavior in suffering are correlated . Relief from this responsibility correlates with a decline in health . 6 It is not easy to study medical culture without a straitjacket . F. L. Dunn , " Traditional Asian Medicine ...
Page 168
... responsibility for their condition . They can be pitied rather than blamed for sloppy , vile , or incompetent performance in suffering their subjective reality ; they can be regarded as persecuted rather than accursed if they humbly ...
... responsibility for their condition . They can be pitied rather than blamed for sloppy , vile , or incompetent performance in suffering their subjective reality ; they can be regarded as persecuted rather than accursed if they humbly ...
Page 273
... responsible , but only in part responsible to others . To be responsible may mean two things . A man is responsible for what he has done , and responsible to another person or group . Only when he feels subjectively responsible or ...
... responsible , but only in part responsible to others . To be responsible may mean two things . A man is responsible for what he has done , and responsible to another person or group . Only when he feels subjectively responsible or ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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