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 100
... technical effectiveness of those resources he commands . 196 There are no limits to his power to demand more and ever more . Finally , the patient's death places the physician beyond potential control and criti- cism . In the last ...
... technical effectiveness of those resources he commands . 196 There are no limits to his power to demand more and ever more . Finally , the patient's death places the physician beyond potential control and criti- cism . In the last ...
Page 203
... Technical Society , " Hastings Center Studies 2 ( May 1974 ) : 31-36 : " There has been a shift of death from within the moral order to the technical order . . . . I do not believe that men were inherently more moral in the past when ...
... Technical Society , " Hastings Center Studies 2 ( May 1974 ) : 31-36 : " There has been a shift of death from within the moral order to the technical order . . . . I do not believe that men were inherently more moral in the past when ...
Page 256
... technical devices of medical magic does not mean that the state shall not protect individual people against exploita- tion by ministers of medical cults ; it means only that tax funds shall not be used to establish any such rituals ...
... technical devices of medical magic does not mean that the state shall not protect individual people against exploita- tion by ministers of medical cults ; it means only that tax funds shall not be used to establish any such rituals ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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