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Hostages of Health Care offers a sharp philosophical examination of health care as one of the most powerful systems shaping human lives today. Rather than focusing on diseases or treatments, the book explores the structures through which illness is interpreted, decisions are made, and lives are quietly redirected. Drawing on philosophy, sociology, ethics, and clinical realities, Kriger shows how health care functions as a total system entered by necessity, not choice. Through rigorous analysis and illustrative case studies, the book reveals its hidden architecture-structural dependency, pressured consent, routine risk, bureaucratic delay, and the dominance of statistics over individual human meaning. Hostages of Health Care is written for readers who seek clarity rather than reassurance. It is not an argument against health care, but a call for awareness of its power, its limits, and its moral responsibility toward those who depend on it. Keywords medical ethics, healthcare systems, patient autonomy, iatrogenic harm, institutional medicine, clinical risk, philosophy of medicine

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