Medical Nemesis
Author: Ivan Illich
Publisher: Pantheon Books, A Division of Random House, New York.
Date: 1976
Stated First American Edition.
294 pages
Condition: Very good. Cloth cover and pages with minimal signs of use or wear. Dust jacket present, with slight wrinkling of bottom front corner. Dark stains on front and back flyleafs, evidently from old glue. Penciled price on front flyleaf.
This influential book addressed the industrialization and inhumanity of the modern medical system. The author focused on iatrogenesis - the ways in which health care makes us sicker instead of promoting health.
Author: Ivan Illich
Publisher: Pantheon Books, A Division of Random House, New York.
Date: 1976
Stated First American Edition.
294 pages
Condition: Very good. Cloth cover and pages with minimal signs of use or wear. Dust jacket present, with slight wrinkling of bottom front corner. Dark stains on front and back flyleafs, evidently from old glue. Penciled price on front flyleaf.
This influential book addressed the industrialization and inhumanity of the modern medical system. The author focused on iatrogenesis - the ways in which health care makes us sicker instead of promoting health.
Author: Ivan Illich
Publisher: Pantheon Books, A Division of Random House, New York.
Date: 1976
Stated First American Edition.
294 pages
Condition: Very good. Cloth cover and pages with minimal signs of use or wear. Dust jacket present, with slight wrinkling of bottom front corner. Dark stains on front and back flyleafs, evidently from old glue. Penciled price on front flyleaf.
This influential book addressed the industrialization and inhumanity of the modern medical system. The author focused on iatrogenesis - the ways in which health care makes us sicker instead of promoting health.