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Worried sick [electronic resource] : a prescription for health in an overtreated America / Nortin M. Hadler.

By: Hadler, Nortin M.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series: Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008Description: 376 p. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Medical care -- United States | Medical policy -- United States | Older people -- Medical care -- United States | Medical care -- Utilization -- United States | Health care reform -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.10973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The Methuselah complex -- The 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 -- The 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.
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362.10973 (Browse shelf) Available

"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-353) and index.

The Methuselah complex -- The 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 -- The 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.