This is a chapter from the book:

Translated from Gesundheit, Gegenstandpunkt Verlag, Munich

Health (2nd expanded edition)
A Good and its Price

Preface

I. The “modern plagues”

  1. Modern clinical conditions
  2. Modern cause of disease: Class society
    • Cause of disease: Wage labor
    • Cause of disease: Profitability of the nation as a business location
    • Cause of disease: Competition
    • Cause of disease: Leisure
    • Cause of disease: ‘Third World’ poverty

II. The Remarkable Achievements of the Medical Industry

  1. Brilliant Theoretical Achievements
  2. Practical Assistance

III. Health as a Commodity

  1. Society lives on and for the capitalists’ competition to draw on its ability to pay
  2. The Medical Business: A Harmonious Balance Between Helping People and Making Money

P.S.: The Patient

Letter to the Editor 1: Is It Okay to Criticize Medicine Like This? A Scathing Review of a “Very Stupid” and “Annoying” Book

Letter to the Editor 2: The Individual and His Mental Activities — Pure “Philosophical-Idealistic Fiction”?

Response from the Authors

 

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