Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. – Ivan Illich
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isnt organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. – Ivan Illich
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying… Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. – Ivan Illich
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. – Ivan Illich