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

    • Title:The last well person : how to stay well despite the health-care system / Nortin M. Hadler.
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    • Author/Creator:Hadler, Nortin M.
    • Published/Created:Montreal ; Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2004.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects: Health attitudes.
      Health behavior.
      Medical care--Utilization.
    • Medical Subjects:Health Behavior.
      Attitude to Health.
      Philosophy, Medical.
      Quality of Life.
    • Description:viii, 313 pages.
    • Summary:Publisher Provided Annotation The Last Well Person helps readers assume responsibility for assessing their own health and avoid medical interventions that are unnecessary or cause harm. To be well, stresses Hadler, is to have the wherewithal to cope effectively with many of life's unavoidable challenges. In lucid prose and with understated humour, he offers his book as a guide to healthier living.
      Annotation This book is a controversial skewering of how doctors and the medical industry turn healthy people into patients.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-299) and index.
    • ISBN:0773527958 (alk. paper)
    • Contents:Pt. 1. Methuselah complex
      1. Interventional cardiology and kindred delusions
      2. Fats, fads, and fate
      3. You and your colon
      4. Breast cancer and how the women's movement got it wrong
      5. Prostate envy
      Pt. 2. Worried sick
      6. Musculoskeletal predicaments
      7. Medicalization of the "worried well"
      8. Turning aging into a disease
      9. Health hazards in the hateful job
      10. Why are alternative and complementary therapies thriving?
      Epilogue : a ripe old age.
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