The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing …

Ivan Illich
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The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed. ✨ Ivan Illich (1982). Medical nemesis: the expropriation of health, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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