Medical engineering for life in a world-wide shelter
"[T]he armed bureaucracies ... have come into being since, under Louis XIV, Richelieu established the first professional police: that is, the professional agencies that are now in charge of weaponry, intelligence, and propaganda. Since Hiroshima, these so-called services appear to be the determinants for research, design production, and employment. They rest upon civilian foundations, such as schooling for discipline, consumer training for the enjoyment of waste, habituation to violent speeds, medical engineering for life in a world-wide shelter, and standardized dependence on issues dispensed by benevolent quartermasters." (Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment)
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alibey1917 medical engineering for life in a world-wide shelter Maybe he means by "medical engineering" the entire healthcare bureaucracy. By "a world-wide shelter" he may be suggesting that everyone commonly resides in a shelter with such services. alibey1917 issues Everyone is dependent on clothes, food and funds doled out by the authority.
- alibey1917 medical engineering for life in a world-wide shelter Maybe he means by "medical engineering" the entire healthcare bureaucracy.
- By "a world-wide shelter" he may be suggesting that everyone commonly resides in a shelter with such services.
- alibey1917 issues Everyone is dependent on clothes, food and funds doled out by the authority.
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- "Useful Unemployment"
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alibey1917medical engineering for life in a world-wide shelter
Maybe he means by "medical engineering" the entire healthcare bureaucracy. By "a world-wide shelter" he may be suggesting that everyone commonly resides in a shelter with such services.
alibey1917issues
Everyone is dependent on clothes, food and f
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