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Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

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Ivan Illich
Age: 76 †
Born: 1926
Born: September 4
Died: 2002
Died: December 2
Anthropologist
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Vienna
Austria
Ivan D. Illich
Ivan Dominic Illich
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The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
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