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UNINA9910451570903321 |
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Autore |
Hadler Nortin M |
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Titolo |
Worried sick [[electronic resource] ] : a prescription for health in an overtreated America / / Nortin M. Hadler |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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0-8078-8617-3 |
0-8078-8271-2 |
1-4696-0223-7 |
0-8078-8618-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Collana |
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H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medical care - United States |
Medical policy - United States |
Older people - Medical care - United States |
Medical care - Utilization - United States |
Health care reform - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-353) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Methuselah complex -- The heart of the matter -- Risky business : cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure -- You are not what you eat -- Gut check -- Breast cancer prevention : screening the evidence -- The beleaguered prostate -- Disease mongering -- Creakiness -- It's in your mind -- Aging is not a disease -- Working to death -- "Alternative" therapies are not "complementary" -- Assuring health, insuring disease. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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At a time when access to health care in the United States is being widely debated, Nortin Hadler urges that before we commit to paying for whatever pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment tell us we need, American consumers need to adopt an attitude of skepticism and arm themselves with enough information to make some of their own decisions about what care is truly necessary. Each chapter of Worried Sick is an object lesson regarding the uses and abuses of a |
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