Last Well Person How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System

Name: Last Well Person How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System
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ISBN: 9780773532540

ISBN-10: 0773532544

ISBN-13: 9780773532540

Edition: 2007

Authors: Nortin M. Hadler

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Are we all disease time bombs? In this book, the author argues that unfounded assertions, massaged data and flagrant marketing have led to the medicalization of everday life, worrying us unduly and reducing the quality of our lives.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 4/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946



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