Deschooling Society

Ivan, Illich

The text of Ivan Illich's article on deschooling prefaces the critical response of active educators. Bibliogs

After Deschooling, What?

Alan Gartner

Frank Riessman

Colin Greer

Roy P. Fairfield

Maxine Green

Harper&Row

The author questions the value of institutionalized learning and offers radical reforms for the present system

Deschooling Society (Pelican books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Celebration of Awareness (Pelican s.)

Penguin

A. B. C. - Alphabetization of the Popular Mind (Pelican)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Deschooling Society (Penguin education)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Penguin??Books

Medical nemesis: The expropriation of health

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Pantheon Books

Toward a History of Needs [paperback] Illich, Ivan [Jan 01, 1980]

Toward a History of Needs

History

Bantam]

The health professions--embodied as profiteers, priests & kings--are the target for this polemic. An overindustrialized society has led to the multiplication of medical specialists, a Cartesian belief in the body-as-machine & the hubris which elevates the art of healing into a science. The result is a counterproductive overmedicalization, Illich spells this out in terms of "iatrogenesis"--doctor-caused disease. This can be clinical, in terms of faulty diagnosis & treatment; societal, in terms of policies & laws which distribute funds & determine who's healthy, who's not; & cultural, in terms of beliefs & values which undermine individual freedom & responsibility. Such a system creates fear, multiplies pain (hence the demand for drugs), encourages custodial care & deprives the individual of decision-making powers. Instead of learning from pain, of caring & sharing, of actively participating in self healing, the patient becomes a passive consumer taught to demand health services from cradle to grave. This is the ultimate expropriation of the medical nemesis of unhealth is the inexorable consequence. Illich does not single out individuals for criticism but speaks in broader terms of the imbalance of industrial society. He doesn't deny the advances in medicine, nor does he propose simple solutions. His final chapter on alternatives shows how not to go about reform. The time is right for such a critique. Tho the health professions will protest, there is such power & documentation in these arguments that even those most involved may see the point.--Kirkus (edited)

Medical Nemesis

Bantam Books. NY

An intense examination of the effects of technology on literacy and language. The authors argue that there is a phenomenon transforming modern culture--language is becoming part of a technology of "information systems" with an emphasis on control, rather than human exchange. As a result, all language is becoming debased.

ABC: Alphabetization of the Popular Mind

Barry Sanders

Self-Help

Vintage

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