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Jan 11, 2003 · He popularised the word iatrogenesis to describe what he saw as a relentless increase in disease induced by doctors. His publications were more polemic than analysis, but the rhetoric was powerful and in the 1970s his views were labelled extreme.
- Richard Selzer
Richard Selzer practised and taught general surgery at Yale...
- Richard Selzer
Jan 29, 2021 · In his work devoted to analyzing the theme of health, Ivan Illich addressed the medicalization of society, the harms caused by the medical apparatus, the so-called iatrogenesis, including drug iatrogenesis, which he also listed as the cause of hospital admissions [1].
- José Antonio Diniz de Oliveira
- 2021
Ivan Illich was well ahead of his time 2 in identifying and classifying the health hazards of the “medicalisation of society”. In the mid-1970s he used medicine as an example of his general thesis that industrialisation and bureaucracy were appropriating areas of life previously regarded as personal.
- Alex Scott-Samuel
- 2003
Illich went on to argue that not only did doctors contribute little to the health of populations, they probably did more harm than good: ‘…only modern malnutrition injures more people than iatrogenic disease in its various manifestations.’ He had a low opinion of doctors (‘the medical guild’),
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Themes of Medical Nemesis. Medicine and the health of populations. Social iatrogenesis. Introduction. Ivan Illich’s attack on modem medicine, Medical Nemesis, appeared in 1974, famously opening with the statement: “The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.”
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.’
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Jan 29, 2021 · He addressed the various forms of iatrogenesis, classifying the new disease caused by the set of medical care as an epidemic that would not exist if there were no medical intervention.
