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Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America /

At a time when access to health care in the United States is being widely debated, Nortin Hadler urges that before we commit to paying for whatever pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment tell us we need, American consumers need to adopt an attitude of skepticism and arm themselves wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hadler, Nortin M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Colección:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Methuselah complex
  • The heart of the matter
  • Risky business : cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure
  • You are not what you eat
  • Gut check
  • Breast cancer prevention : screening the evidence
  • The beleaguered prostate
  • Disease mongering
  • Creakiness
  • It's in your mind
  • Aging is not a disease
  • Working to death
  • "Alternative" therapies are not "complementary"
  • Assuring health, insuring disease.