TY  - BOOK
AU  - Illich,Ivan
TI  - Limits to medicine: medical nemesis : the expropriation of health 
PY  - 1976///
CY  - London
PB  - Marion Boyards
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Iatrogenic diseases
KW  - Delivery of health care
KW  - Ethics, medical
KW  - Quality of health care
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; PART I : Clinical Iatrogenesis; 1 : The Epidemics of Modern Medicine; PART II : Social Iatrogenesis; 2 : The Medicalization of Life; PART III : Cultural Iatrogenesis; Introduction; 3 : The Killing of Pain; 4 : The Invention and Elimination of Disease; 5 : Death Against Death; PART IV : The Politics of Health; 6 : Specific Counterproductivity; 7 : Political Countermeasures; 8 : The Recovery of Health
N2  - A reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals conducted by the medical profession. Illich proves the impotence of medical services to change life expectancy, and examines the clinical and social reality of personal health, and argues for individuals to regain the integrity of their bodies and lives
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