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Limits to Medicine Medical Nemesis

Paperback • 1995 • English

Limits to Medicine Medical Nemesis: the Expropriation of Health

By Ivan Illich

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About the book

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 insignificant of most contemporary clinical care in curing disease, the magnitude of medically inflicted damage to health, and the futility of medical and political c...Show more

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9780714529936

Publisher

M. Boyars

Published year

1995

Language

English

Original title

Limits to Medicine Medical Nemesis

Format

Paperback

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