Getting what we deserve : health and medical care in America / / Alfred Sommer
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| Autore: |
Sommer Alfred <1942->
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| Titolo: |
Getting what we deserve : health and medical care in America / / Alfred Sommer
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (150 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Public health - United States |
| Health | |
| Medical policy - United States | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-125) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Genesis : from few to many-in fits and starts -- Disease is the sum of all evils -- Genes : sometimes "destiny," sometimes not -- The complex nature of causality -- The consequences of our own behavior -- Choosing the healthier lifestyle -- From science to policy : the path is anything but linear -- The U.S. health care system -- Who's healthy? Who's not? Why?. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Humorous, sometimes acerbic, and always well informed, Sommer's thought-provoking book will change the way you look at health care in America. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Getting what we deserve |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-9860-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814866503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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