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What if medicine disappeared? / Gerald E. Markle, Frances B. McCrea.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 233 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781435632059
  • 1435632052
  • 9780791473054
  • 0791473058
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: What if medicine disappeared?.DDC classification:
  • 610 22
LOC classification:
  • R708 .M34 2008eb
NLM classification:
  • 2008 C-431
  • WB 50 AA1
Online resources:
Contents:
Disappearance -- Primary care -- Surgery -- Emergency medicine -- Pharmaceuticals -- Mental illness -- Mind-body -- A world without medicine.
Summary: "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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-225) and index.

Print version record.

"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

Disappearance -- Primary care -- Surgery -- Emergency medicine -- Pharmaceuticals -- Mental illness -- Mind-body -- A world without medicine.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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