Kniha Seeking Sickness Alan Cassels

Seeking Sickness

Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Dostupnosť: 50 % šanca
Prehľadáme celý svet
14.39
Why wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another...

Informácie o knihe

Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
2012
Stránok
176
EAN
9781771000321
ISBN
1771000325
Enbook ID
11148073
Hmotnosť
255
Rozmery
139 x 215 x 19

Kompletný popis

Why wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right?

Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. His Seeking Sickness takes us inside the world of medical screening, where well-meaning practitioners and a profit-motivated industry offer to save our lives by exploiting our fears. He writes that promoters of screening overpromise on its benefits and downplay its harms, which can range from the merely annoying to the life threatening. If you're facing a screening test for breast or prostate cancer, high cholesterol, or low testosterone, someone is about to turn you into a patient. You need to ask yourself one simple question: Am I ready for all the things that could go wrong?


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