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- "The medical establishment has become a major threat to health." This is the opening statement and basic contention of Ivan Illich's searing social critique. In Limits to Medicine Ivan Illich has enlarged on this theme of disabling social services, schools, and transport, which have become, through over-industrialization, harmful to man.
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Illich’s dramatic and powerful language enhanced both his positive and negative impacts: “The medical establishment has become a major threat to health” 3; “…it now seems rational to flee pain rather than to face it” 2; “…irreparable damage accompanies industrial expansion in all sectors”. 2
- More to Illich than overtreatment: his work is relevant as we ...
Abbasi repeats Ivan Illich’s quote from the 1970s: “The...
- More to Illich than overtreatment: his work is relevant as we ...
Jul 15, 2022 · Abbasi repeats Ivan Illich’s quote from the 1970s: “The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.”1 The revival of interest in Illich’s work is welcome, but there is a danger that only the parts endorsed by the medical world get incorporated into the discussion.
Jun 1, 2016 · Ivan Illich's attack on modern medicine, Medical Nemesis, appeared in 1974. The book famously opened with the statement: ‘The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.’
Dec 12, 1974 · Illich’s lengthy arguments about the various forms of iatrogenic harm lead him to argue for keeping most of the population away from the medical establishment and instead bolstering the ability of communities to maintain their health and cope with ill-health.
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The closest I ever came to a religious experience was listening to Ivan Illich. A charismatic and passionate man surrounded by the fossils of the academic hierarchy in Edinburgh, he argued that “the major threat to health in the world is modern medicine.”
- R Smith
- 2003
book famously opened with the statement: ‘The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.’ Forty years after its publication, this paper examines the major themes of the book, and asks whether events since its publication have added weight to Illich’s thesis. KeywordS Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis, medicalisation
Ivan lllich and the pursuit of health Perspective time engaged in a literary crusade against technology and the many ways in which he believed the public good was being harmed. In his 1976 book, Medical nemesis: the expropriation of health, lllich argued that medical care did more harm than good,6 citing the by then substantial
