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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.’
Medical Nemesis was a natural development of Illich’s ideas on institutions and professions. He argued that modern medicine had hubristically taken on a mission to eradicate pain, sickness, even death. These were, he argued, eternal human realities, which we must learn to cope with: in fact, coping with these verities is what it
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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.” This chapter examines the major themes of the book, and asks whether events since its publication have added weight to Illich’s thesis or diminished the book’s ...
Ivan Illich was well ahead of his time2 in identifying and classifying the health hazards of the “medicalisation of society”. In the mid-1970s he … Contemporary medicine is not comfortable with polymaths: it cannot easily handle visions that transcend its narrowly defined specialist boundaries.
- Alex Scott-Samuel
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In 1974 Richard Smith, the editor of the British Medical Journal, and I each attended lectures by Ivan Illich. Smith, then a medical student in Edinburgh, heard him claim that “the major threat to health in the world is modern medicine.”.
- J P Bunker
- 2003
Apr 13, 2002 · In the mid-1970s, Ivan Illich launched a powerful attack on the “medicalisation” of dying. The rise of palliative care has been one response to calls for greater dignity at the end of life. Yet the wider medical system continues to regard death as something to be resisted, postponed, or avoided.
Sensational publicity of low value treatments in the press and on social media has led to unreasonable expectations for modern medicine. Illich coined the label Sisyphus syndrome to refer to the notion that, as more healthcare is given to a society, more insatiable become its demands.
