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Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America / Nortin M. Hadler.
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Title:Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America / Nortin M. Hadler.
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Author/Creator:Hadler, Nortin M.
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Published/Created:Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: W84.AA1 H131 2008
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: W84.AA1 H131 2008
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Medical care--United States.
Medical policy--United States.
Older people--Medical care--United States.
Medical care--Utilization--United States.
Health care reform--United States.
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Medical Subjects: Delivery of Health Care--utilization--United States--Popular Works.
Aging--psychology--United States--Popular Works.
Health Policy--United States--Popular Works.
Health Promotion--United States--Popular Works.
Unnecessary Procedures--utilization--United States--Popular Works.
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Description:viii, 376 p. ; 25 cm.
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Series:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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Notes:"A Caravan book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-353) and index.
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ISBN:9780807831878 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807831875 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Contents:1. Methuselah Complex
2. Heart of the Matter
3. Risky Business: Cholesterol, Blood Sugar, and Blood Pressure
4. You Are Not What You Eat
5. Gut Check
6. Breast Cancer Prevention: Screening the Evidence
7. Beleaguered Prostate
8. Disease Mongering
9. Creakiness
10. It's in Your Mind
11. Aging Is Not a Disease
12. Working to Death
13. "Alternative" Therapies Are Not "Complementary"
14. Assuring Health, Insuring Disease.