Erewhonian
📖 Definitions
adjective
1. Opposed to machines, automation, or technology, like a Luddite.
2. Treating disease as crime and ill people as criminals.
💬 Usage Examples
“To talk about the continued relevance of the book can single you out as a modern Erewhonian.” Paul Duguid; Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book; The Future of the Book, edited by Geoffrey Nunberg; University of California Press; 1996. “If patients know they will be pilloried and punished for past behaviour, they will run from the health-care system much as many offenders run from the law.
Medicine would simply cease to be medicine if it became an Erewhonian penal system.” Peter Mcknight; Medicine Isn’t Medicine If Used as Punishment; The Vancouver Sun (Canada); Feb 2, 2022.