title: Medical nemesis. 1974.
abstract: This article was originally published in the Lancet in 1974.( dagger ) It is reprinted here, as the centre of a set of articles, in memory of the death of Ivan Illich in December 2002.
authors.affiliation: Cuernavaca, Mexico.
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Illich
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003469:Culture; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D012962:Sociology, Medical / Q000266:history*