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• Title:Health wars : on the global front lines of modern medicine / Richard Horton.
  
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• Author/Creator:Horton, Richard C.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : New York Review of Books, 2003.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB130 .H823 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medicine--Miscellanea.
  Medical care--Miscellanea.
  Social medicine--Miscellanea.
  
• Medical Subjects: Medicine--trends--Popular Works.
  Physician-Patient Relations--Popular Works.
  
• Description:xxii, 592 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:In these essays from the New York Review of Books, the Lancet, London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement, Richard Horton examines how conceptions of disease and its treatment have changed over the centuries and looks at an array of medical questions facing both the individual and society. Covering a wide array of subjects from controversies over HIV/AIDS to the Human Genome Project to the debate over euthanasia, Horton argues eloquently for a new understanding of patients not as subjects but as people, and shows how society benefits from an appreciation of what disease does, not only to human bodies but to the human spirit.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-565) and index.
  
• ISBN:1590170245 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  9781590170243 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Infection: the global threat
  The plagues are flying
  Waiting for the biowar
  Surviving conflict
  The African challenge
  Vaccine myths
  An autopsy of Dr. Osler
  Truth and heresy about AIDS
  A fatal erosion of integrity
  Secret society
  World health disorganization
  How sick is modern medicine?
  DNA: the life of a dead molecule
  Protecting the breast
  The final cut
  In the danger zone
  The health of peoples
  Taking dignity seriously.