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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.