DO 152 - Medical Nemesis and Matthew Loftus with Donald
Doomer Optimism
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Illich's Definition of a Measure of Health
In his book, Illich argues that the measure of health is one's autonomous personal coping ability. He says this does not mean Western individualist idea of I'm going to make it on my own. The destruction of health by lowering you to live in whichever way you want actually depends on you being autonomous and consuming medicine," he writes.
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