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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... ritual healing roles . One devout Catholic might derive intimate strength from personal prayer , some marginal groups of recent arrivals in São Paolo might routinely heal their ulcers in Afro - Latin dance cults , and Indians in the ...
... ritual healing roles . One devout Catholic might derive intimate strength from personal prayer , some marginal groups of recent arrivals in São Paolo might routinely heal their ulcers in Afro - Latin dance cults , and Indians in the ...
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... ritual is not a necessary 237 S. D. Lipton , “ On Psychology of Childhood Tonsillectomy , " in R. S. Eissler et al . , eds . , Psychoanalytic Study of the Child ( New York : International Univs . Press , 1962 ) , 17 : 363-417 ...
... ritual is not a necessary 237 S. D. Lipton , “ On Psychology of Childhood Tonsillectomy , " in R. S. Eissler et al . , eds . , Psychoanalytic Study of the Child ( New York : International Univs . Press , 1962 ) , 17 : 363-417 ...
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... ritual . The death of a member thereby becomes an occasion for an exceptional celebration . The dominance of industry has disrupted and often dissolved most traditional bonds of solidarity . The impersonal rituals of industrialized medi ...
... ritual . The death of a member thereby becomes an occasion for an exceptional celebration . The dominance of industry has disrupted and often dissolved most traditional bonds of solidarity . The impersonal rituals of industrialized medi ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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