Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

"TheMedicalEstablishmentHasBecomeAMajorThreatToHealth."ThisIsTheOpeningStatementAndBasicContentionOfIvanIllich'SSearingSocialCritique.In"LimitsToMedicine"IvanIllichHasEnlargedOnThisThemeOfDisablingSocialServices,Schools,AndTransport,WhichHaveBecome,ThroughOver-Industrialization,HarmfulToMan.InThisRadicalContributionToSocialThinkingIllichDecimatesTheMythOfTheMagicOfTheMedicalProfession.