Emerging Ideologies in Medicine
This paper analyzes the ideological content of three recent and popular books: Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich, Who Shall Live ? by Victor Fuchs and The End of Medicine by Rick Carlson. These books are shown to use a victim-blaming epidemiology that obscures the relationship between production and di...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Review of radical political economics 1977-04, Vol.9 (1), p.116-124 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This paper analyzes the ideological content of three recent and popular books: Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich, Who Shall Live ? by Victor Fuchs and The End of Medicine by Rick Carlson. These books are shown to use a victim-blaming epidemiology that obscures the relationship between production and disease, to promote individual responses to health problems, to undermine petit-bourgeois control of medical care delivery, and to justify cutbacks of medi cal care service. |
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| ISSN: | 0486-6134 1552-8502 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/048661347700900108 |