Patient empowerment and the dilemmas of late-modern medicalisation
2007; Elsevier BV; Volume: 369; Issue: 9562 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(07)60318-3
ISSN1474-547X
Autores Tópico(s)Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
ResumoIn Medical Nemesis, 1 Illich I Medical nemesis. Pantheon, New York1975: 4 Google Scholar perhaps the most influential definition of medicalisation ever written, historian-philosopher Ivan Illich argued that by overextending its scientific and cultural authority, modern medicine had itself become a threat to health, a fount of "doctor inflicted injuries" and "iatrogenic disease". 1 Illich I Medical nemesis. Pantheon, New York1975: 4 Google Scholar Although Illich's 1975 book focused mainly on the role of the medical profession in creating these problems, he suggested that the ill effects of medicalisation might well be reversed by the actions of a long "passive public", now beginning to recover its "will to self-care". 1 Illich I Medical nemesis. Pantheon, New York1975: 4 Google Scholar The deepening crisis of modern medicine presented new opportunities for "the layman effectively to reclaim his own control over medical perception, classification, and decision-making," a "laicisation of the Temple of Aesculapius" that Illich believed held great promise for the reform of modern medicine. 1 Illich I Medical nemesis. Pantheon, New York1975: 4 Google Scholar
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