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Page 167
Leifer, Goffman, Szasz, Laing, and others are all interested in the political
genesis of mental illness and its use for political purposes.30 In order to make
their point, they all contrast "unreal" mental with "real" physical disease: in their
view the ...
Leifer, Goffman, Szasz, Laing, and others are all interested in the political
genesis of mental illness and its use for political purposes.30 In order to make
their point, they all contrast "unreal" mental with "real" physical disease: in their
view the ...
Page 251
"Just as radical political movements turn into organized political parties and lusty
evangelical sects become staid religious denominations," so, I argue here,
people who have started out to materialize dreams of health delivery turn into a ...
"Just as radical political movements turn into organized political parties and lusty
evangelical sects become staid religious denominations," so, I argue here,
people who have started out to materialize dreams of health delivery turn into a ...
Page 255
By denying public recognition to entities that cannot be measured by science, the
call for pure, orthodox, confirmed medical practice shields this practice from all
political evaluation. The religious preference given to scientific language over the
...
By denying public recognition to entities that cannot be measured by science, the
call for pure, orthodox, confirmed medical practice shields this practice from all
political evaluation. The religious preference given to scientific language over the
...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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| Title | Limits to medicine: medical nemesis, the expropriation of health Open Forum Series Ideas in progress |
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Boyars, 1976 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Jul 2008 |
| ISBN | 071452512X, 9780714525129 |
| Length | 294 pages |
| Subjects | › Hygiene Iatrogenic diseases Medical / General Medical / Health Care Delivery Medical care Medicine Social Science / Disease & Health Issues Social medicine |
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