In 1976 Ivan Illich published Medical Nemesis: the expropriation of health
I have one major issue with Illich, he leaves almost nothing to be said. The one thing I would alter is the title, to: Medical Nemesis: the expropriation of freedom
It is available on line at https://ratical.org/ratville/AoS/MedicalNemesis.pdf and elsewhere.
Here are the contents:
Introduction
PART I. Clinical latrogenesis [Latrogenesis is medical act that harms one’s health which may result in a lawsuit, which is why vaccines are immune from suit]
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine
Doctors’ Effectiveness—an Illusion
Useless Medical Treatment
Doctor-Inflicted Injuries
Defenseless Patients
PART II. Social latrogenesis
2. The Medicalization of Life
Political Transmission of Iatrogemc Disease
Social latrogenesis
Medical Monopoly
Value-Free Cure?
The Medicalization of the Budget
The Pharmaceutical Invasion
Diagnostic Imperialism
Preventive Stigma
Terminal Ceremonies
Black Magic Patient Majorities
PART III. Cultural latrogenesis
Introduction
3. The Killing of Pain
4. The Invention and Elimination of Disease
5. Death Against Death
Death as Commodity
The Devotional Dance of the Dead
The Danse Macabre
Bourgeois Death
Clinical Death
Trade Union Claims to a Natural Death
Death Under Intensive Care
PART IV. The Politics of Health
6. Specific Counterproductivity
7. Political Countermeasures
Consumer Protection for Addicts
Equal Access to Torts
Public Controls over the Professional Mafia
The Scientific Organization—of Life Engineering for a Plastic Womb
8. The Recovery of Health
Industrialized Nemesis
From Inherited Myth to Respectful Procedure
The Right to Health
Health as a virtue
The Daily Lama 