A review by gijs
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich

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A call for a renewed personal health ethic as the only antidote to iatrogenesis. As such the (gullible) ‘expropriation of health’ caused by the ‘hubris’ of ever-expanding possibilities of industrialized medicine paradoxically (or perversely) leads to the the ‘nemesis’ of iatrogenic harm. Heady stuff, and stridently put, but well thought through and some original insights to be found here.