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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (10 Dec 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1842300075
ISBN-13: 978-1842300077
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.4 cm

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The medical establishment has become a major threat to health, says Ivan Illich. He outlines the causes of iatrogenic dideases, caused by medical cures, and the impotence of the medical services to extend life expectancy. If people need bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth and die, they become divorced from pain, sickness and death, and become unable to cope with life.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A classic text on modern medicine, 29 Dec 2005

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I'm surprised no-one before me has written a review of this classic text. It's many years since I first read it, but I can never forget the impact Illich's sharp and intelligent analysis made on me then. Not only is the argument profound, it is backed up by a most extraordinary depth of source materials, more perhaps than I have ever seen in any other book. That is, of course, important, in that Illich's criticisms of the way medicine has taken control of our lives are never entirely obvious and need the reinforcement of the studies and statistics on which he bases his views. Readers will recognize the concept of iatrogenesis, whereby medical treatment, through unintended effects, causes harm rather than good. Illich, however, takes iatrogensis and applies it serially to society as a whole, until he reaches (if I remember correctly) the iatrogenesis of the human spirit. You will seldom read a more intelligent, passionate, or thought-provoking book.

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