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Ivan Dominic Illich was born on 4 September 1926 in Vienna, Austria, to Gian Pietro Ilic (Ivan Peter Illich) and Ellen Rose "Maexie" née Regenstreif-Ortlieb. [4] His father was a civil engineer and a diplomat from a landed Catholic family of Dalmatia, with property in the city of Split and wine and olive oil estates on the island of Brač.
Limits to Medicine, also known as Medical Nemesis, is a book by Ivan Illich, first published in 1975.Without defining what medicalisation is, Illich claimed that medicine had increasingly gained social control over people's lives, leading to iatrogenic effects, with physicians as the key players in the process.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (also Romanized Ilich, Ilych, Ilyitch; Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, romanized: Smert' Ivána Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.
CoEvolution Quarterly (1974–1985) was a journal descended from Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog. Brand founded the CoEvolution Quarterly in 1974 using proceeds from the Whole Earth Catalog. [1] It evolved out of the original Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog. [2]
Radical monopoly is a concept defined by philosopher and author Ivan Illich in his 1973 book, Tools for Conviviality, [1] and revisited in his later work, which describes how a technology or service becomes so exceptionally dominant that even with multiple providers, its users are excluded from society without access to the product.
The Centro Intercultural de Documentación (CIDOC) was founded by Ivan Illich in 1965 as a higher education campus for development workers and missionaries. It was located in Cuernavaca ( Mexico ), at the Rancho Tetela.
Sachs is known as one of the many followers of Ivan Illich and his work has influenced the green and ecological movements. Contrary to glocalisation, cosmolocalism moves from locality to universality, acknowledging the local as the locus of social co-existence and emphasizing the potential of global networking beyond capitalist market rules.
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich; Revolution Through Peace by Dom Helder Camara; Man Unfolding by Jonas Salk; Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich; Across the Frontier by Werner Heisenberg; Evil and World Order by William Irwin Thompson; To Have or to Be? by Erich Fromm; Energy and Equity by Ivan Illich; Letters From the Field, 1925-1975 by ...