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PC, M.D. : how political correctness is corrupting medicine / Sally Satel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Satel, Sally L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--United States--Miscellanea.
- Medical care.
- Political correctness--United States.
- Political correctness.
- United States.
- Social medicine--United States.
- Social medicine.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Physical Description:
- x, 285 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2000]
- Summary:
- Drawing on a wealth of information, the author documents what happens when the tenets of political correctness, including victimology, multiculturalism, and the rejection of fixed truths and individual autonomy, are allowed to enter the fortress of medicine, making for a powerful wake-up call to the medical profession and to patients.
- Contents:
- Introduction: PC Medicine
- Hazardous to Your Health 1
- 1 Public Health and the Quest for Social Justice 9
- 2 Inmates Take Over the Asylum 45
- 3 Nursing Grudges 77
- 4 Sisterhood and Medicine 103
- 5 Crack Moms of South Carolina 131
- 6 Race and Medicine 155
- 7 Therapy for Victims 193
- Epilogue: The Indoctrinologist Isn't In ... Yet 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0465071821
- OCLC:
- 45122895
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