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Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America
Author
Title
Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America / Nortin M. Hadler.
ISBN
9780807831878 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807831875 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Notes
"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-353) and index.
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Delivery of Health Care - utilization - United States - Popular Works.
Aging - psychology - United States - Popular Works.
Health Policy - United States - Popular Works.
Health Promotion - United States - Popular works.
Unnecessary Procedures - utilization - United States - Popular Works.
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