Emma Rothschild writes about a new French book on the economics of illness
- L’Ordre Cannibale: Vie et Mort de la Médecine by Jacques Attali
Grasset, 325 pp, ISBN 0 00 000097 3
One of the more mournful consequences of the economic crisis is the boom in the business of illness. This is in one sense a figure of speech. The economies of the West are evidently unwell: since 1973, they have been obsessed with the etiology of economic impairment, the electroencephalograms of unemployment and inflation. But it is also literally true.
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Vol. 1 No. 1 · 25 October 1979 » Emma Rothschild » Emma Rothschild writes about a new French book on the economics of illness (print version)
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