Illich, Ivan, Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemisis: The Expropriation of Health. Marion Boyars (1975).
“People need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition, and die.” Relentlessly and with full documentation taken from recognized medical sources, Illich proves the impotence of medical services to change life expectancy, the insignificance of most contemporary clinical care in curing disease, the magnitude of medically inflicted damage to health, and the futility of medical and political counter-measures.