The Role of Medicine : : Dream, Mirage, or Nemesis? / / Thomas McKeown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: McKeown, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 56
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to the Second Edition --; Introduction --; Part One. Concepts of Health --; 1. Evolution of Health Concepts --; 2. Inheritance, Environment and Disease --; Part Two. Determinants of Health --; 3. Decline of Mortality --; 4. Infectious Diseases --; 5. Non-Infective Conditions --; 6. Health in the Past --; 7. Health in the Future --; 8. Medical Achievement --; Part Three. The Role of Medicine --; 9. Non-Personal Health Services --; 10. Clinical Services --; 11. Medical Education --; 12. Medical Research --; 13. Dream, Mirage or Nemesis? --; 14. Medicine as an Institution --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400854622; 9783110413441; 9783110413595; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400854622
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas McKeown.

In analyzing the factors that have improved health and enhanced longevity during the last three centuries, Thomas McKeown contends that nutritional, environmental, and behavioral changes have been and will be more important than specific medical measures, especially clinical or curative" measures.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.