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Author: Olivier Clerc
ISBN : B003EYV8D2
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Free download Free Download Modern Medicine: The New World Religion: How Beliefs Secretly Influence Medical Dogmas and Practices [Kindle Edition] from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Put forth in this book is the assertion that medicine is actually ruled by a set of beliefs, myths, and rites of Christianity it has never freed itself from. Supporting this claim are discussions about the ways in which physicians have taken the place of priests, vaccination plays the same role as baptism, the search for health has replaced the quest for salvation, and the hope of physical immortality (cloning and genetic engineering) takes priority over eternal life. This book argues that the medical establishment has become the government's ally, as the Catholic Church has in the past. 'Charlatans' are prosecuted today, as 'heretics' were in the past, and dogmatism rules out promising medical theories. It contends that only by becoming aware of how religious beliefs and primitive fears unconsciously influence one's relationships with medicine can people start walking on the path of freedom, personal responsibility, and individual sovereignty.Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Free Download Modern Medicine: The New World Religion: How Beliefs Secretly Influence Medical Dogmas and Practices
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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.For an American readership, I think Clerc's arguments would have been stronger had he addressed the financially-driven aspects of the multi-billion dollar medical complex. But Clerc doesn't go there--probably because European socialized medicine is less influenced by the bottom line than in the States-but also because he is avoiding easy blame and criticism. Instead, Clerc is interested in challenging paradigms. He wants us to examine our own attitudes toward medicine, and so he puts the responsibility on each of us to be more aware and independent regarding health-care choices. The book is written as an extended "essay," and reads almost as if Clerc is writing a letter to a friend. As he states clearly, it is not intended as a comprehensive anlysis of today's medical practices, nor an expose of its shortcomings.
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. Rather than shower praise on Pasteur, the author posits that his medical beliefs were distorted by his religion (Catholic).
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