Worried sick a prescription for health in an overtreated America
by
Hadler, Nortin M.
Title
:
Worried sick a prescription for health in an overtreated America
Author
:
Hadler, Nortin M.
ISBN
:
9781469602233
Publication Information
:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
:
1 online resource (376 p. )
General Note
:
"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Contents
:
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.
Subject Term
:
Unnecessary Procedures -- utilization -- United States -- Popular Works.
Health Promotion -- United States -- Popular works.
Health Policy -- United States -- Popular Works.
Aging -- psychology -- United States -- Popular Works.
Delivery of Health Care -- utilization -- United States -- Popular Works.
Health care reform -- United States.
Medical care -- Utilization -- United States.
Older people -- Medical care -- United States.
Medical policy -- United States.
Medical care -- United States.
Added Corporate Author
:
Project Muse.
Electronic Access
:
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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| Online Library | E-Book | 239352-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |