Disabling Professions
Published on 1. January 1977
114 pages
978-0-7145-2080-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this fascinating and controversial collection of essays Ivan Illich, Irving K Zola, John McKnight, Jonathan Caplan and Harley Shaiken challenge the power and mystery of professions. Why do we put so much resource into medicine, education and the law with so little apparent result? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? By analyzing these questions and putting forward radical answers, the authors make an invaluable contribution to the public debate on the power of professions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
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Windows
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0,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7145-2080-3 (9780714520803)
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Person
Ivan Illich was born in Vienna to a Croatian father and Sephardic-Jewish mother, and had as native languages Italian, French and German. He later learnt Serbo-Croatian, the language of his grand-fathers, then Ancient Greek and Latin, as well as Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi. Thereafter, he studied histology and crystallography at the University of Florence (Italy), theology and philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in the Vatican (1942-1946) and medieval history in Salzburg. He is the author of Tools for Conviviality, The Right to Useful Unemployment, Energy and Equity, Limits to Medicine, Shadow Work, Gender, H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness, ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind, Deschooling Society and In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990. Illich lived much of his life in Mexico and the United States, he died in 2002.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Disabling Professions
- Healthism and Disabling Medicalization
- Professionalized Service and Disabling Help
- Lawyers and Litigants: A Cult Reviewed
- Craftsman into Baby Sitter
- About the Authors
- Also by Ivan Illich
- Copyright
