The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry
Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
T he harm caused by the medical profession is called iatrogenesis , and in 1975, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) published Medical Nemesis (republished titled Limits to Medicine ) in which he discussed the clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis of modern medicine. Illich was a philosopher and social critic of monopolistic institutions and bureaucracies in Western society that undermine self-sufficiency, community, freedom, and dignity.
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