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



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Autore: Hadler Nortin M Visualizza persona
Titolo: The last well person : how to stay well despite the health-care system / / Nortin M. Hadler Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 p.)
Disciplina: 362.1
Soggetto topico: Health attitudes
Health behavior
Medical care - Utilization
Attitudes a l'egard de la sante
Habitudes sanitaires
Soins medicaux - Utilisation
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.
Titolo autorizzato: The last well person  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-86293-6
9786612862939
0-7735-7225-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815527203321
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