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Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health

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Limits to Medicine

Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health

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"The medical establishment has become a major threat to health. The disabling impact of professional control over medicine has reached the proportions of an epidemic. Iatrogenesis, the name for this new epidemic, comes from iatros, the Greek word for physician, and genesis, meaning origin. Discussion of the disease of medical progress has moved up on the agendas of medical conferences, researchers concentrate on the sick-making powers of diagnosis and therapy, and reports on paradoxical damage caused by cures for sickness take up increasing space in medical dope-sheets ... The public has been alerted to the perplexity and uncertainty of the best among its hygienic caretakers ... This book argues that panic is out of place. Thoughtful public discussion of the iatrogenic pandemic, beginning with an insistence upon demystification of all medical matters, will not be dangerous to the commonweal."--Introduction.

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294

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Cover of: Limits to Medicine
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health
March 1999, Marion Boyars Publishers
Paperback in English
Cover of: Limits to medicine
Cover of: Némesis médica
Némesis médica: la expropiación de la salud
1984, Joaquin Mortiz
in Spanish
Cover of: Medical Nemesis
Medical Nemesis: The
1979, Bantam Books
Paperback
Cover of: Limits to medicine
Limits to medicine: medical nemesis : the expropriation of health
1977, Penguin
in English - [New ed.].
Cover of: Medical Nemesis
Medical Nemesis : The Expropriation of Health
August 1, 1977, Bantam Books
Paperback
Cover of: Medical nemesis
Medical nemesis: the expropriation of health
1976, Pantheon Books
- 1st American ed.
Cover of: Némésis médicale
Némésis médicale: L'expropriation de la santé
1975-01-01, Seuil
Cover of: Medical Nemesis
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
1975, Calder & Boyars
in English

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
294
Dimensions
7.9 x 5 x 0.8 inches
Weight
13.8 ounces

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Open Library
OL7799203M
Internet Archive
limitstomedicine0000illi
ISBN 10
0714529931
ISBN 13
9780714529936
Library Thing
103117
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