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Biography of illich
ThemeS of Medical NeMesis
There is a degree of confusion around the title of Illich's medical polemic. Medical Nemesis was first published in 1974 by Calder and Boyars. 5 The study of the evolution of disease patterns provides evidence that during the last century doctors have affected epidemics no more profoundly than did priests in earlier times…the combined death rate from scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles among children up to fifteen shows that nearly 90 per cent of the total decline in mortality between 1860 and 1965 had occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread immunization.
Illich went on to argue that not only did doctors contribute little to the health of populations, they probably did more harm than good: '…only modern malnutrition injures more people than iatrogenic disease in its various manifestations.'
He had a low opinion of doctors ('the medical guild'), who he regarded as more conc
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Ivan Illich > Quotes
“L'industrie du transport façonne son produit : l'usage. Chassé du monde où les personnes sont douées d'autonomie, il a aussi perdu l'impression de se trouver au centre du monde. Il a conscience de manque de plus en plus de temps, bien qu'il utilise chaque jour la voiture, le train, l'autobus, le métro et l'ascenseur, le tout pour franchir en moyenne trente kilomètres, souvent dans un rayon de moins de dix kilomètres. Le sol se dérobe sous ses pieds, il est cloué à la roue. Qu'il prenne le métro ou l'avion, il a toujours le sentiment d'avancer moins vite ou moins bien que les autres et il est jaloux des raccourcis qu'empruntent les privilégiés pour échapper à l'exaspération créée par la circulation. Enchaîné à l'horaire de son train de banlieue, il rêve d'avoir une auto. Épuisé par les embouteillages aux heures de pointe, il envie le riche qui se déplace à contre-sens. Il paie sa voiture de sa poche, mais il sait trop bien que le PDG
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Ivan Illich
Austrian philosopher and theologian (1926–2002)
This article is about the Austrian philosopher. For the novella, see The Death of Ivan Ilyich. For the Russian philosopher, see Ivan Ilyin.
Ivan Dominic Illich (iv-AHNIL-itch; German:[ˈiːvanˈɪlɪtʃ]; 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic.[1] 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 Medical Nemesis, importing to the sociology of medicine the concept of medical harm, argues that industrialised kultur widely impairs quality of life bygd overmedicalising life, pathologizing normal conditions, creating false dependency, and limiting other more healthful solutions.[2] Illich called himself "an errant pilgrim."[3]
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