What is an example of cultural iatrogenesis?

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Cultural iatrogenesis implies that societies weaken the will of their members, by paralysing ‘healthy responses to suffering, impairment and death’. Here, the whole culture becomes ‘overmedicalized’, with doctors assuming the role of priest, and political and social problems entering the medical domain. Must we take a pill for every ache, every sad mood, every stomach upset, have surgery for our stiff joints or myopia? Or can we not learn how to live with the frailties of the flesh? Must we expend all our treasure in an ineluctably futile fight against death, or do we not benefit by facing our mortality with equanimity? http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O88-iatrogenesis.html http://healthvsmedicine.blogspot.com/2005/02/medical-nemesis.html May 30 08, 5:03 AM