Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
(Part of the Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Series)
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Most of us want and expect medicine's miracles to extend our lives. In today's aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see--it's being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance companies. In Ordinary Medicine Sharon R. Kaufman investigates what drives that storm's "more is better" approach to medicine: a nearly invisible...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822358883
ISBN13:9780822358886
Release Date:May 2015
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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