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-The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.- This is the opening statement and basic contention of Ivan Illich's searing social critique. In Limits to Medicine Ivan Illich has enlarged on this theme of disabling social services, schools, and transport, which have become, through over-industrialization, harmful to man. In this radical contribution to social thinking Illich decimates the myth of the magic of the medical profession.

Der Autor fordert eine Begrenzung des Wachstums nicht nur aus ökologischen Gründen, sondern vor allem mit dem Ziel, den Menschen wieder zu einem autonomen Wesen werden zu lassen. Ein Ziel, dem vor allem die von uns selbst geschaffenen Institutionen und die stetig wachsende Zahl von Experten und Spezialisten im Wege stehen. Mit diesem Buch schuf Illich nicht nur die ersten Bausteine zu einer allgemeinen Theorie der Industrialisierung, sondern legte zudem eine radikale Kritik der Institutionen und Expertenzünfte vor.

Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper yardsticks for measuring the quality of human life. Our universities have become recruiting centers for the personnel of the consumer society, certifying citizens for service, while at the same time disposing of those judged unfit for the competitive rat race. In this bold and provocative book, Illich suggest some radical and exciting reforms for the education system.

Ivan Illich alights on such topics as education, history, language, politics, and the church. The conversations range over the whole of Illich's published work and public career as a priest, vice-rector of a university, founder of the Centre for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and author of such classics as Tools for Conviviality, Medical Nemesis, and Deschooling Society.