Does more medicine make us sicker? Ivan Illich revisited

A proper understanding of health is a social and political challenge, the modern social medicine approach to public health and health approaches more generally tend to minimise this, making the isolated individual the primary unit of health. Ivan Illich, social critic and philosopher, was at the for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cormac Russell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-11-01
Series:Gaceta Sanitaria
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0213911119300032