Article March 30, 1987 Issue

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The Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times, April 15, 1986

"It was 10 years ago that philosopher-social scientist-historian Ivan Illich trained his sights on medicine in a book called 'Medical Nemesis.'

"A decade later, Illich has returned to the subject, convinced that, in some ways, the cure for what ailed medicine has turned out to be worse than the disease. This time, he is pursuing the new American obsession with health, a development he says is worse than 'national hypochondria.'

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