Risky Medicine : Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty /

Will ever-more sensitive screening tests for cancer lead to longer, better lives? Will anticipating and trying to prevent the future complications of chronic disease lead to better health? Not always, says Robert Aronowitz in Risky Medicine. In fact, it often is hurting us. Exploring the transformat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aronowitz, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Temas:
Diseases > Risk factors > Social aspects > United States.
Medical care > United States > History > 20th century.
Medicine, Preventive > United States > History > 20th century.
MEDICAL / General.
history of medicine, family practice, future complications, chronic disease, doctors, physicians, curing, treating symptoms, clinical, risk reduction, health assessment, pharmaceutical industry, illness, medical practitioners, anticipatory treatment, relieving suffering, hpv vaccines, cancer screening programs, survivorship movement, patients, interventions, risk-reducing.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • I
  • 1 Risky medicine: Our quest to cure fear and uncertainty
  • 2 The converged experience of risk and disease
  • 3 The social and psychological efficacy of risk interventions
  • II
  • 4 The Framingham Heart Study: The emergence of the risk factor approach
  • 5 Gardasil: A vaccine against cancer and a drug to reduce risk
  • 6 Lyme disease vaccines: A cautionary tale for risk intervention
  • 7 Cancer survivorship: The entangled experience of risk and disease
  • 8 The global circulation of risk interventions
  • III
  • 9 Situating health risks: An opportunity for disease prevention policy
  • 10 Epilogue: The risk system
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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