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Page 34
I hope to show that on each of its three levels iatrogenesis has become medically
irreversible: a feature built right into the medical endeavor. The unwanted
physiological, social, and psychological by-products of diagnostic and
therapeutic ...
I hope to show that on each of its three levels iatrogenesis has become medically
irreversible: a feature built right into the medical endeavor. The unwanted
physiological, social, and psychological by-products of diagnostic and
therapeutic ...
Page 120
To exonerate the sick from accountability for their illness has become a
predominant task, and new scientific categories of disease have been shaped for
the purpose. Medical school and clinic provide the doctor with the atmosphere in
which ...
To exonerate the sick from accountability for their illness has become a
predominant task, and new scientific categories of disease have been shaped for
the purpose. Medical school and clinic provide the doctor with the atmosphere in
which ...
Page 182
Death ceases to be the end of a whole and becomes an interruption in the
sequence.17 Skeleton men predominate on the title pages of the first fifty years of
the woodcut, as naked women now predominate on magazine covers. Death
holds ...
Death ceases to be the end of a whole and becomes an interruption in the
sequence.17 Skeleton men predominate on the title pages of the first fifty years of
the woodcut, as naked women now predominate on magazine covers. Death
holds ...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Limits to medicine |
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| Publisher | Marion Boyars, 1976 |
| ISBN | 0714525138, 9780714525136 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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