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Olivier Clerc is a journalist and the author of a number of books in French. He was the editorial director of Jouvence, a Franco-Swiss publishing house that specializes in health, spirituality, and personal development. Michael Misita is the author of "How to Believe in Nothing & Set Yourself Free".
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- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Personhood Press (April 1, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1932181148
- ISBN-13: 978-1932181142
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In simple, every-day language, Olivier Clerc challenges the dogma of Modern Medicine, and our often "religious" respect for it. As a Swiss-born popular philosopher and writer (now a long-time resident of France), Clerc offers a perspective an American writer might not be able to. Although sympathetic to Robert S. Mendelson's "Confessions of a Medical Heretic," Clerc approaches the question of medicine from a different angle. He explains how Louis Pasteur-commonly credited as the father of Modern Medicine-compromised his research and conclusions in order to accommodate his ardent Catholic faith, and then deliberately designed a medical practice that would parallel the Catholic Church structure, with Doctors acting as priests, nurses acting as "sisters," the check-up acting as the "confessional" etc.
Originally published in French as
Médecine, religion et peur: l'influence cachée des croyances
1999
The French title is better at capturing the essence of this book.
Clerc is by a long shot not the first to draw parallels between medicine and religion, which is fine, because it cannot be done often enough. He does lay the accent slightly differently. The only religion he has in mind is Catholicism.
Clerc sees both the church and medicine as authoritarian, pushing the believer/patient into an infantile role, dependent on the religious/medical practitioner for delivery from harm. He is rightly keen to point out that we, the masses, share the blame by being all too eager to sell our independence out to the church/medicine for relief of our fears of impending doom and death.
"The structures have changed, but the fundamental dynamics have not; the goals of the game are still power, control over the population, and financial gain. ... Dominant or dominated, both are playing the same game, whose rules are dictated by power and fear."
Surprising to me is the role this author assigns to Louis Pasteur as the father of modern medicine. Is he? Pasteur, mentioned frequently throughout the book, is the only representative of medicine named, leaving me to wonder whether he is the only one Clerc studied.