Medical Nemesis
The Expropriation of Health
by Ivan Illich
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"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."--Introduction.
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Soins médicaux, Médecine sociale, Médecine, Maladies iatrogéniques, Philosophie, Hygiène, Delivery of Health Care, Delivery of health care., Hygiene, Iatrogenic Disease, Iatrogenic diseases, Medical Philosophy, Medical care, Medical care., Medical ethics, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Quality of Health Care, Social medicine, Sociale gezondheidszorg, Latrogenic disease, Salud pública, Administración, Public Health, Medicalisering, Medicina social, Filosofia, Social conditions, Case studies, Politics and government, IdeologyShowing 8 featured editions. View all 26 editions?
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Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health
March 1999, Marion Boyars Publishers
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Limits to medicine: medical nemesis : the expropriation of health
1990, Penguin
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Medical Nemesis : The Expropriation of Health
August 1, 1977, Bantam Books
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Limits to medicine: medical nemesis : the expropriation of health
1977, Penguin
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Medical nemesis: the expropriation of health
1976, Pantheon Books
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Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
1975, Calder & Boyars
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