TY  - BOOK
AU  - Markle,Gerald E.
AU  - McCrea,Frances B.
TI  - What if medicine disappeared?
SN  - 9781435632059
AV  - R708 .M34 2008eb
U1  - 610 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Medical personnel
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Health Occupations
KW  - Disciplines and Occupations
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Behavioral Sciences
KW  - Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
KW  - Psychiatry and Psychology
KW  - Sociology, Medical
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Miscellanées
KW  - Sociologie médicale
KW  - Sociologie
KW  - Personnel médical
KW  - Sciences sociales
KW  - Sciences du comportement
KW  - Soins médicaux
KW  - sociology
KW  - aat
KW  - social sciences
KW  - behavioral sciences
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Family & General Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Osteopathy
KW  - Holistic Medicine
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Reference
KW  - Essays
KW  - Alternative Medicine
KW  - Holism
KW  - fast
KW  - United States
KW  - Trivia and miscellanea
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-225) and index; Disappearance -- Primary care -- Surgery -- Emergency medicine -- Pharmaceuticals -- Mental illness -- Mind-body -- A world without medicine
N2  - "In this thought-provoking book, sociologists Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea ask what would happen if Western medicine were to disappear. Using a rigorous and imaginative method - thought experiment - Markle and McCrea evaluate medicine's impact on mortality and our national health. They examine various aspects of medicine, such as primary care, surgery, emergency medicine, pharmaceuticals, and mental illness treatment, and convincingly point out the problems that health care actually causes. Supporting their ideas with statistics and studies from medical and social science literature, Markle and McCrea argue that the medical model, despite its tremendous budget and hype, accomplishes far less than most would think. Their conclusions should promote critical review and lively discussion among medical consumers as well as among health care professionals and policy makers."--Jacket
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