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Author Hadler, Nortin M.

Title Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America / Nortin M. Hadler.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
©2008

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.10973 H11    Check Shelf
Description viii, 376 pages ; 25 cm.
Series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Note "A Caravan book" -- T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-353) and index.
Contents Methuselah complex -- 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 -- 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.
Subject Medical care -- United States.
Medical policy -- United States.
Older people -- Medical care -- United States.
Medical care -- Utilization -- United States.
Health care reform -- United States.
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.
ISBN 9780807831878 cloth alkaline paper
0807831875 cloth alkaline paper
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