Medicalization of life
“People who are preoccupied with the ordinary fatigues and aches and pains of living, [Illich] charged, rarely want to acknowledge that they are unhappy with their jobs or their relationships, or despondent because they are trapped in stressful, unfulfilling life pursuits, or experiencing existential despair. They want to hear that they are physically ill. They want to hear that their sadness and fatigue, their aches and their pains are ailments for which medicine must assume responsibility”
-Lawrence Schneiderman
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