Ivan Illich Quotes About Health Care

Quotes about: Health Care

• Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

  Ivan Illich

  Humorous, Health, Doctors

  "Medical Nemesis". Book by Ivan Illich, 1976.

• Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

  Ivan Illich

  Discovery, Self, Care

• The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

  Ivan Illich

  Military, Race, Productive Work

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

• The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

  Ivan Illich

  Doctors, Long, Physicians

  Medical Nemesis

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