Illich Ivan: Medicinska nemeza

Name: Medicinska nemeza
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Author: Illich Ivan

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Author: Illich Ivan
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 56365

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Medicinska nemeza

Illich Ivan

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Ivan Illich: Medical Nemesis

Illich's cult book "Medical Nemesis", in which the Greek goddess of retribution punishes the doctor's unlimited power over human life, once had a great resonance in Europe and the world. However, after thirty-five years, Illich's basic propositions have become even more strict and show that the crisis of the medical paradigm of health and disease has deepened considerably. Health has become a fetish worshiped by most people, society is pathologically obsessed with disease, medicalization has taken over all aspects of life, and the individual is helplessly obeying the dictates of doctors and pharmacists, the regime of clinics and hospitals, dependent on them like a drug addict. Modern medicine, despite its great progress, has gone too far towards lllich in its desire to exclude mortality, disease and pain, turning people into consumers of health while destroying their defenses. Illich's book establishes a richer and more positive notion of health that does not depend on medical institutions but on the general context, lifestyle, eating habits, living and working conditions, the cohesion of the social fabric and the basic autonomy of the human being. Ivan Illich (Ilić) (1926-2002), a world-renowned philosopher, sociologist, social critic, erudite and polymath, was born in Vienna, according to his father, who came from a family from Brač-Split. Initially ordained as a priest, in 1961 he founded the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC) in Cuarnevac, Mexico. Works: "Lower Schools" (1971), "The Right to Community" (1973), "According to the History of Needs" (1978), "Work in the Shadows" (1981) etc.

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