Volume 22, Number 6 · April 17, 1975
Home Remedies
By D.W. Harding
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (hardcover) and $4.00 (paper))
by Ivan Illich
Calder & Boyars (London), 184 pp., £1.25 (copies will be available in US bookstores at about $9.00
Ivan Illich's attack on what he calls excessive 'medicalization' is the latest of his critical studies of the basic institutions of modern industrial society. In earlier works he has criticized the modern systems of schooling, transport, and industrial growth itself. Excellent for its purpose of provocative propaganda, this new book creates enough doubts, objections, and disappointments to serve admirably in its publishers' series 'Ideas in Progress.' It is explicitly a first draft, inviting critical comment which Illich will take into account in a fuller version for later publication in the US, [1] and he asks for comments to be sent to him at his research center in Mexico.
Review, 3420 words
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