Worried sick : : a prescription for health in an overtreated America / / Nortin M. Hadler ; with a new preface by the author & a new foreword by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Chapel Hill : : University of North Carolina Press,, [2008] 2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 pages). |
| Notes: | "A Caravan book"--title page verso. |
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Table of 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.