Pflanzenschutzmittel und Arbeitsschutz

The future of healthcare

“…Health and medicine occupy a special place in human activities, but Illich's point may reflect of a more general The reasons for this increase are not clear. One would have thought that with ever improving education and nutrition (the latter also, presumably, a result of improving education) the health of the general population would, actually, improve with time; the main architect of the UK's National Health Service (NHS), Nye (Aneurin) Bevan, is indeed often quoted as saying that in time the 1 Sometimes this remark is quoted in the context of private medicine (that is, when the costs of medical care are paid by the patient), which was the main way in which healthcare was provided in the UK prior to 1948, the year in which the NHS was founded, the meaning being that state medicine would become the exclusive way providing healthcare to the entire population.…”

“…On the other hand the services actually provided by the NHS after its inception focused on relief of sickness, rather than preventive medicine; the latter, surely inevitably increasing with increasing knowledge (e.g., of the toxicity of chemicals to which workers might be occupationally exposed [1]), would itself have been expected to eliminate much sickness. 2 The results of which were not really predictable (cf.…”