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Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America
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Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America / Nortin M. Hadler ; with a new preface by the author & a new foreword by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer.
ISBN
9780807831878 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807831875 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807872338
9780807882719 (e-book)
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
Copyright Notice Date
©2008
Physical Description
1 online resource (400 pages).
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"A Caravan book"--title page verso.
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Print version: Hadler, Nortin M. Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008] H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 29, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [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.
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