Main entry:

Illich, Ivan, 1926-2002.

Title & Author:

Limits to medicine : medical nemesis : the expropriation of health : with a new introduction by the author / Ivan Illich.

Publication:

London : Marion Boyars Publishers, 2010, ©1995.

Description:

x, 294 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Reprint of 1995 edition.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part I. Clinical Iatrogenesis. 1. The Epidemics of modern medicine ---- Part II. Social Iatrogenesis. 2. The medicalization of life ---- Part III. Cultural Iatrogenesis. 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.

Summary:

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 counter-measures. Illich's deeply shocking analysis into the clinical and social reality of doctor-made illness examines the culture of health, sickness and suffering and includes an historical examination of the concept and image of death. Only by recognizing and insisting upon the essential ingredients personal health, Illich argues, can individuals recover the integrity of their bodies and lives. 'People need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition, and die. Man's consciously lived fragility; individuality and relatedness make the experience of pain, of sickness and of death an integral part of his life. The ability to cope with this trio autonomously is fundamental to his health'. -- Back cover.

ISBN:

0714529931 (pbk.)
9780714529936 (pbk.)

Subject:

Social medicine.
Iatrogenic diseases.
Medical care.
Medicine Philosophy.
Delivery of Health Care
Iatrogenic Disease
Philosophy, Medical
Social Medicine
Maladies iatrogéniques.
Médecine Philosophie.
Prestation de soins.
Médecine sociale.

Added entries:

Illich, Ivan, 1926-2002. Medical nemesis.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287084
Call No.: BIB 227856
Status: Available