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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783797603321

Autore

Hadler Nortin M

Titolo

The last well person [[electronic resource] ] : how to stay well despite the health-care system / / Nortin M. Hadler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-86293-6

9786612862939

0-7735-7225-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Health attitudes

Health behavior

Medical care - Utilization

Attitudes à l'égard de la santé

Habitudes sanitaires

Soins médicaux - Utilisation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-299) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- The Methuselah Complex -- Interventional Cardiology and Kindred Delusions -- Fats, Fads, and Fate -- You and Your Colon -- Breast Cancer and How the Women’s Movement Got It Wrong -- Prostate Envy -- Worried Sick -- Musculoskeletal Predicaments -- Medicalization of the “Worried Well” -- Turning Aging into a Disease -- Health Hazards in the Hateful Job -- Why Are Alternative and Complementary Therapies Thriving? -- Epilogue: A Ripe Old Age -- Annotated Readings -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Hadler systematically builds the case that many medical interventions are hazardous to our health. Especially insidious is the misuse of longevity statistics in turning the difficulties experienced through a natural course of life, such as aging and osteoporosis, into illnesses. He argues that unfounded assertions and flagrant marketing have led to the medicalization of everyday life and he offers practical solutions on such topics as aging, obesity, adult onset diabetes, and back problems.



In The Last Well Person Hadler addresses the tough questions about our health care, cutting through the medical white noise.