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Disease as a New Anthropological Horizon

The Critical Anthropology of Ivan Illich

Author(s): Olga Vlasova
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Civil Society, Sociology
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: Ivan Illich; anthropology; counterproductivity; disease; suffering; health

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the problem of disease in the critical anthropology of Ivan Illich. It examines some of his works, hitherto not translated into Russian, devoted to medicine and the body, disease and health, in which Illich develops a strategy of radical social critique, reassesses the status of medicine in contempo-rary society, and proposes his own view on health and the healthcare system.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 38-48
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English, Bulgarian