The last well person : how to stay well despite the health-care system / Nortin M. Hadler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hadler, Nortin M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health attitudes.

Health behavior.

Medical care--Utilization.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hadler systematically builds the case that many medical interventions are hazardous to our health. Especially insidious is the misuse of longevity statistics in turning the difficulties experienced through a natural course of life, such as aging and osteoporosis, into illnesses. He argues that unfounded assertions and flagrant marketing have led to the medicalization of everyday life and he offers practical solutions on such topics as aging, obesity, adult onset diabetes, and back problems. In The Last Well Person Hadler addresses the tough questions about our health care, cutting through the medical white noise.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

The Methuselah Complex

Interventional Cardiology and Kindred Delusions

Fats, Fads, and Fate

You and Your Colon

Breast Cancer and How the Women’s Movement Got It Wrong

Prostate Envy

Worried Sick

Musculoskeletal Predicaments

Medicalization of the “Worried Well”

Turning Aging into a Disease

Health Hazards in the Hateful Job

Why Are Alternative and Complementary Therapies Thriving?

Epilogue: A Ripe Old Age

Annotated Readings

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-299) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86293-6

9786612862939

0-7735-7225-2

OCLC:

824197003