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Ivan Illich Quotes

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Ivan Illich

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Author Details:
Type:
Sociologist Quotes
Category:
American Sociologist Quotes
Date of Birth:
September 4, 1926
Date of Death:
December 2, 2002
Nationality:
American
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