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Ivan Illich

Limits to Medicine

The medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. So begins Ivan Illich's spirited and reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals conducted by the medical profession. Relentlessly and with full documentation taken from recognized medical sources Illich proves the impotence of medical services to change life expectancy, the insignificance of most clinical care in curing disease, the magnitude of medically inflicted damage to health, and the futility of medical and political counter measures.
425 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
1976
Publication year
1975
Publisher
Marion Boyars
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  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    basic religious tenets of modern medicine
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    panic is out of place
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    Merely to insist on it would be to contribute further to a self-fulfilling prophecy, and to possible panic.

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