RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Medical nemesis JF Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO J Epidemiol Community Health FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd SP 919 OP 922 DO 10.1136/jech.57.12.919 VO 57 IS 12 A1 Ivan Illich YR 2003 UL http://jech.bmj.com/content/57/12/919.abstract AB This article was originally published in the Lancet in 1974.† It is reprinted here, as the centre of a set of articles, in memory of the death of Ivan Illich in December 2002.