n the 1950's, is satirized in Colonel Cathcart attitudes toward
             Karl summarizes the satirazation of the military with this:
             The enemy in Heller's book is not simply the chaos of war, but also the deadly
             inhuman bureaucracy of the military-economic establishment which clams to be a stay
             against chaos while it threatens human life more insidiously then battle itself.
             Heller also questions the need for the death and carnage throughout the novel asking if
             Many other institutions are also satirized in Catch-22. Bryant points out the extreme
             variety of institutions that Heller satirizes with this "His satire is directed toward
             the institutions that make up society, business, psychiatry, medicine, law, the military.
             Medicine is one of the institutions that is heavily satirized. He does this by
             portraying medicine as a science that is almost barbaric and not exact. He writes of how
             the men of the squadron used the hospital as a way out of battle. Catch-22 it self begins
             in the hospital where Yossarian is faking Jaundice of the liver in order to avoid battle.
             Many characters also take this up as a form of staying out of battle. Heller addresses
             the barbarism of medicine with Dr. Daneeka's aides. He writes of them painting peoples
             gums and feet violet in order to ward of certain illnesses.
             In Catch-22 Heller also satirize religion. This occurs in Chapter Nineteen when Colonel
             Cathcart is aspiring to become a general. In this chapter religion is satirized in a
             number of ways. The first is when Colonel Cathcart uses it for a social icon to improve
             his chance of becoming general. Dr. Peek agrees with this by saying ". . . we see a
             satire on religion used as a matter of social status" (25).
             In Catch-22 there is also one more major satiriazation it is that of industry and
             finance. The reason this is true is because of certain things Milo says such as "What's
             good for the syndicat...