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The Thought of Ivan Illich

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What's the Main Business of Medicine?

i wanted to explore questions of like style and what he's up to in the text, because i think it will help listeners just cind of get tat on the table. Yes, i hear you loud and clear. I had a very kind of skitsoid reaction to the text as a kind of my philosophical and religious upbringing on one side, and then my life as a historian of technology and sociologyst an technology on the other. So when he was when he writeson the section about kind of how medicine creates problems, and then there's like, doctor induced illnesses, am that then we use more medicine to um to try to heal? He writes, at this moment where

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