...professionalization of medicine has also come under censure. In the words of Freidson (1970, p. 5), "Medicine's position today is akin to that of state...to define health and illness and to treat illness." In Medical Nemesis (1976, p. 40), although Illich's argument is often overstated, he makes the important...

...related to health affairs. Medicine's position today is akin to that of state religions yesterday—it has an officially approved monopoly of the right to...one; in fact, it is less than a hundred years old. If medicine was a "profession" in the past, it was a profession of quite different characteristics...

...its treatment is considered to be authoritative and definitive. . . . Medicine's official position is akin to that of state religions yesterday - it...the right to define health and illness and to treat illness.5 This may help to account for the success of the medical bodies in ensuring that the decision...

...standards, and to carry out their own evaluation. Freidson explains that doctors, for instance, "have an officially approved monopoly of the right to define health and illness and to treat illness." As a consequence of their ability to define their own destiny, a profession, according to Freidson,...

...more than an ordinary profession. Freidson believes "medicine's position today is akin to that of the state religions yesterday — it has an officially...the right to define health and illness and to treat illness."I0 It ts understandable that medicine would achieve such an exalted status in American society;...

...related to health affairs. Medicine's position today is akin to that of state religious yesterdayit has an officially approved monopoly of the right to define health and illness and to treat illness. (1970:5) The ways in which cosmopolitan medicine progressively subordinates otner forms of practice...