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Limits To Medicine
''Limits to Medicine'', also known as ''Medical Nemesis'', is a book by Ivan Illich, first published in 1975. Without defining what medicalisation is, Illich claimed that medicine had increasingly gained social control over people's lives, leading to iatrogenic effects, with physicians as the key players in the process. Central Idea The central idea of the book is that medicine - especially Western medicine - is not as good and effective as physicians make it out to be. It has its inherent weaknesses, which are often deliberately suppressed by the medical establishment. Consider the introduction of the book, which begins with this statement, "The medical establishment has become a major threat to health". See also * David Horrobin * David Cayley *Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; alternatively ''Nessim ''or'' Nissim''; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Illich
Ivan Dominic Illich ( ; ; 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian Catholic priest, Theology, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book ''Deschooling Society'' criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that demotivates and alienates individuals from the process of learning. His 1975 book ''Limits to Medicine, Medical Nemesis'', importing to the sociology of medicine the concept of Iatrogenesis, medical harm, argues that industrialised society widely impairs quality of life by overmedicalising life, pathologizing normal conditions, creating false dependency, and limiting other more healthful solutions. Illich called himself "an errant pilgrim." Biography Early life Ivan Dominic Illich was born on 4 September 1926 in Vienna, First Austrian Republic, Austria, to Gian Pietro Ilic (Ivan Peter Illich) and Ellen Rose "Maexie" née Regenstreif-Ortlieb. His father was a civil engineer and a diplomat from a landed Catholic f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iatrogenesis
Iatrogenesis is the causation of a disease, a harmful complication, or other ill effect by any medical activity, including diagnosis, intervention, error, or negligence."Iatrogenic", ''Merriam-Webster.com'', Merriam-Webster, Inc., accessed 27 Jun 2020. First used in this sense in 1924, the term was introduced to sociology in 1976 by Ivan Illich, alleging that industrialized societies impair quality of life by overmedicalizing life."iatrogenesis" ''A Dictionary of Sociology'', . updated 31 May 2020. Iatrogenesis may thus include mental suffering via medical beliefs or a practitioner's statements. Some iatrogeni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Horrobin
David Frederick Horrobin (6 October 1939 – 1 April 2003) was a British-Canadian entrepreneur, medical researcher, author and editor. He is best known as the founder of the biotechnology company Scotia Holdings and as a promoter of evening primrose oil as a medical treatment, Quote: "Dr Horrobin was best known for creating Scotia Holdings, a once sprawling biotechnology company which has the unfortunate distinction of being the UK’s only quoted biotechnology company to have collapsed into administration." Horrobin was founder and editor of the journals ''Medical Hypotheses'' and ''Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids'', the latter journal (initially titled ''Prostaglandins and Medicine'') co-founded with his then graduate student Morris Karmazyn. Horrobin believed that many diseases involve a lack of fatty acid precursors and might be alleviated by supplementing with the appropriate fatty acid. Horrobin's efforts focused on evening primrose oil, which co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cayley
David Cayley is a Toronto-based Canadian writer and broadcaster. He is known for documenting philosophy of prominent thinkers of the 20th century - Ivan Illich, Northrop Frye, George Grant, and Rene Girard. His work has been broadcast on CBC Radio One's programme ''Ideas''. List of works Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey(2021) (Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press) * '' Ideas on the Nature of Science'' (2009) (Toronto: Goose Lane Editions) * ''The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich '' (2005) (Toronto: Anansi Press) * ''Puppet Uprising'' (2003) (Toronto: CBC Radio Canada) * ''Corruption of Christianity'' Illich, Ivan (Author) Cayley, David (Editor) (2000) (Toronto: Anansi Press) * ''Northrop Frye in Conversation'' interviews with Northrop Frye (2000) (Toronto: Anansi Press) * ''Expanding Prison'' (1998) (Toronto: Anansi Press) * ''George Grant in Conversation'' interviews with George Grant (1995) (Toronto: Anansi Press) * ''Ivan Illich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; alternatively ''Nessim ''or'' Nissim''; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty. Taleb is the author of the ''Incerto'', a five-volume work on the nature of uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 (notably, '' The Black Swan'' and '' Antifragile''). He has taught at several universities, serving as a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering since September 2008. He has also been a practitioner of mathematical finance and is currently an adviser at Universa Investments. ''The Sunday Times'' described his 2007 book '' The Black Swan'' as one of the 12 most influential books since World War II. Taleb criticized risk management methods used by the finance industry and warned about financial crises, subsequently pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antifragile (book)
''Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder'' is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2012, by Random House in the United States and Penguin Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae () of the order Sphenisciformes (). They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. Only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is equatorial, with a sm ... in the United Kingdom. This book builds upon ideas from his previous works including '' Fooled by Randomness'' (2001), ''The Black Swan'' (2007–2010), and '' The Bed of Procrustes'' (2010–2016), and is the fourth book in the five-volume philosophical treatise on uncertainty titled ''Incerto''. Some of the ideas are expanded on in Taleb's fifth book Skin in the Game (book), ''Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life'' (2018). Summary The titular concept of antifragility uses examples from science and mathematics to argue that some systems are strengthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iatrogenesis
Iatrogenesis is the causation of a disease, a harmful complication, or other ill effect by any medical activity, including diagnosis, intervention, error, or negligence."Iatrogenic", ''Merriam-Webster.com'', Merriam-Webster, Inc., accessed 27 Jun 2020. First used in this sense in 1924, the term was introduced to sociology in 1976 by Ivan Illich, alleging that industrialized societies impair quality of life by overmedicalizing life."iatrogenesis" ''A Dictionary of Sociology'', . updated 31 May 2020. Iatrogenesis may thus include mental suffering via medical beliefs or a practitioner's statements. Some iatrogeni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
