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  <title><![CDATA[Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are a few dry, statistics-heavy sections in the book. But I thought the end of the book, Part IV: The Politics of Health, is the clearest presentation I've read yet of Illich's critique of industrial institutions. He argues for institutions that balance the possibilities for autonomous action ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73938154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the Bible of books about health care.  It was written ~ 1974.  Illich said virtually everything about today's health care &quot;crisis.&quot;  It's a hard book to read as it is not all that well-written -- but the truths it uncovers are worth the effort.  Illich does not get the credit he de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49941560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A scathing indictment of modern medicine.  Iatrogenisis, or pain and suffering caused by the medical profession, is Illich’s tool for dissecting industrialized medicine.  How much is cured versus how much is caused?  A tough question to answer honestly but Illich builds and argument that medicine ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24173708">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In &quot;Mirror of the Past&quot; Illich says the ideas in this book have now become commonplace -- partly due to the book's popularity and influence. Modern medicine can take almost no credit for increases in life expectancy in the past 250 years, it was sanitation, underwear, and better food, etc....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54821461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[after read this book, you'll think many time to go to hospital or the others medicine institute.<br/>the fact, there's no good process for our health by medicine intitute...<br/>The medicine intitute just the other face of industrialization.<br/><br/>We or our health growing better  without the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78437998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[THIS BOOK IS INSANE. It changed the way I think about global health and public health. Think Michael Moore's &quot;Sicko&quot; but worldwide and with shocking facts.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[hardcover, dust jacket, c1976]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it is sort of outdated.. but it is still readable.. an important book for the argument of medicalization.]]></body>
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