Emerging Ideologies in Medicine

Howard S. Berliner

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1977, vol. 9, issue 1, 116-124

Abstract: This paper analyzes the ideological content of three recent and popular books: Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich, Who Shall Live ? by Victor Fuchs and The End of Medicine by Rick Carlson. These books are shown to use a victim-blaming epidemiology that obscures the relationship between production and disease, to promote individual responses to health problems, to undermine petit-bourgeois control of medical care delivery, and to justify cutbacks of medi cal care service.

Date: 1977
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DOI: 10.1177/048661347700900108

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