Limits to Medicine
AuthorIvan Illich
LanguageEnglish
Published1975

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. The book begins with the statement, "The medical establishment has become a major threat to health".[1][2][3][4][5][6]

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  1. ↑ Killeen, Raymond N. F. (July 1976). "A Review of Illich's Medical Nemesis". Western Journal of Medicine. 125 (1): 67–69. ISSN 0093-0415. PMID 18747743.
  2. ↑ O'Mahony, S. (June 2016). "Medical Nemesis 40 years on: the enduring legacy of Ivan Illich". The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 46 (2): 134–139. doi:10.4997/JRCPE.2016.214. ISSN 2042-8189. PMID 27929580.
  3. ↑ Babich, Babette (January 2018). "Ivan Illich's Medical Nemesis and the 'age of the show': On the Expropriation of Death". Nursing Philosophy: An International Journal for Healthcare Professionals. 19 (1). doi:10.1111/nup.12187. ISSN 1466-769X. PMID 29271600.
  4. ↑ Illich, I. (December 2003). "Medical nemesis*". Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 57 (12): 919–922. doi:10.1136/jech.57.12.919. ISSN 0143-005X. PMID 14652247.
  5. ↑ Horrobin, David F. (1980). Medical Hubris: A Reply to Ivan Illich. Eden Press. ISBN 978-0-88831-080-4.
  6. ↑ Cayley, David (2021). Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-08912-6.


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