The most obvious criminal justice counterpart to
iatrogenesis is labelling (Becker, 1963).
While it is clear cascade
iatrogenesis can be categorized as an adverse event, Tsilimingras and colleagues (2003) suggest geriatric syndromes also should be considered adverse events given their impact on mortality in older adults, the evidence that the syndromes can be prevented, and the understanding that prevention of such syndromes often requires a systems approach to the delivery of care.
While the term was generally applied to inadvertent harm induced by treatment in the hospital, Ivan Illich also described "social
iatrogenesis" and "cultural
iatrogenesis.
Iatrogenesis is one powerful example of an important truth: Science and technology can, and perhaps increasingly do, have negative consequences.
Because indwelling catheters are associated with
iatrogenesis and morbid outcomes in this population and these are important QIs over which facilities have some control, the steering committee recommended both QIs.
Sheiham states that operative procedures or dental materials are the more widely recognized causes of clinical
iatrogenesis in dentistry.
First, the enterprise of medicating schizophrenia was characterized for nearly three decades by the mass production of obvious treatment-induced disease, accompanied nonetheless by mass professional denial that such
iatrogenesis was occurring (see, among others, Brown & Funk, 1986; Cohen, 1997b; Gelman, 1999; Whitaker, 2001).
Iatrogenesis in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
6) Illich's central concept was that of
iatrogenesis -- disease caused by medical intervention.
First, a handbook on dissociation should have included chapters about the critical tradition that argues for
iatrogenesis and false memories in the creation and development of DID and other dissociative disorders, since they are widely discussed and taken seriously by many in the psychological and psychiatric communities.
The phenomenon of
iatrogenesis, and the convincing evidence that false memories exist, raise questions as to the accuracy of reports of recovered repressed memories of more mundane varieties of abuse.
It is an unrelenting critique of doctor-caused disease, or what Illich calls
iatrogenesis.
