
The Thought of Ivan Illich
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The Second Watershed: How Medicine Creates Problems
I wanted to kind of explore questions of like style and and what he's up to in the text because I think it'll help listeners just kind of like get that on the table. He writes at the time of the second watershed is this moment where we're creating illnesses and then responding to them preservation of a sick life became the principal business of the medical profession. If you're specifically interested in the questions of medicine than the thing to do is to follow up with limits to medicine which is a much more well documented well argued exploration of these questions. Illich refers back to this period where he shoots off de schooling tools energy and equity his critique of transportation industry and limits to medicine in a period
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