Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Nortin M Hadler
- ناشر : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9780807831878
Description
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
Argues that American consumers need to arm themselves with enough information to make their own decisions about what medical care is necessary in a work that provides object lessons on the uses and abuses of particular types of medical treatments
