Medical nemesis
Subtitle: the expropriation of health
By: Ivan Illich.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Iatrogenic diseases; Medical care; Medicine -- Philosophy; Social medicine
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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