Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich

Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, The Expropriation of Health

Ivan Illich

missing page info Add in missing page information • paperback • 1974

9 editions

nonfiction health philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The health professions--embodied as profiteers, priests & kings--are the target for this polemic. An overindustrialized society has led to the multiplication of medical specialists, a Cartesian belief in the body-as-machine & the hubris wh...

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