Exhibit 175 ยท Book
Limits to Medicine. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.
The British edition, described by its publisher as the definitive version of Medical Nemesis. Its Introduction opens with the sentence most often quoted from the book. The Pantheon US edition of the same year does not contain that sentence and opens its first chapter on the decline of polio, diphtheria and tuberculosis.
- Source
- Ivan Illich (Calder & Boyars, London; reprinted by Marion Boyars)
- Date
- 1976 (preface dated 27 February 1976)
- Quoted from
- Introduction, first sentence
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://archive.org/details/limitstomedicine0000illi
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit