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Page 128
I argue here that health and my ability to remain 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 ...
I argue here that health and my ability to remain 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 ...
Page 168
As long as disease is something that takes possession of people, something they
"catch" or "get," the victims of these natural processes can be exempted from
responsibility for their condition. They can be pitied rather than blamed for sloppy,
...
As long as disease is something that takes possession of people, something they
"catch" or "get," the victims of these natural processes can be exempted from
responsibility for their condition. They can be pitied rather than blamed for sloppy,
...
Page 272
Instead of restricting access to addictive, dangerous, or useless drugs and
procedures, such legislation would shift the full burden of their responsible use
onto the sick person and his next of kin. Instead of submitting the physical and
mental ...
Instead of restricting access to addictive, dangerous, or useless drugs and
procedures, such legislation would shift the full burden of their responsible use
onto the sick person and his next of kin. Instead of submitting the physical and
mental ...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Introduction | 127 |
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The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated Body Deborah Lupton No preview available - 1995 |
Bibliographic information
| 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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