num_pages: 294
description: "The medical establishment has become a major threat to health." This is the opening statement and basic contention of Ivan Illich's searing social critique. In Limits to Medicine Ivan Illich has enlarged on this theme of disabling social services, schools, and transport, which have become, through over-industrialization, harmful to man. In this radical contribution to social thinking Illich decimates the myth of the magic of the medical profession.
language: English
title: Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
titlecomplete: Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
genres: Politics, Philosophy, Cultural, Science, Health, Medicine, Theory, Medical, Nonfiction, Sociology
ratings_count: 507
publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd