What if medicine disappeared? / Gerald E. Markle, Frances McCrea.
What if medicine disappeared? / Gerald E. Markle, Frances McCrea.
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Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.
Call Numbers
N610/117
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Language
English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
1. Disappearance -- 2. Primary Care -- 3. Surgery -- 4. Emergency Medicine -- 5. Pharmaceuticals -- 6. Mental Illness -- 7. Mind-Body -- 8. A World Without Medicine -- App. A. Alternative Medicine -- App. B. Thought Experiments -- App. C. Medicine and Mortality.
Publication information
Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
"In this thought-provoking book, sociologists Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea ask what would happen if Western medicine were to disappear. Using a rigorous and imaginative method - thought experiment - Markle and McCrea evaluate medicine's impact on mortality and our national health. They examine various aspects of medicine, such as primary...
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What if medicine disappeared? / Gerald E. Markle, Frances McCrea.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
N610/117
Record Identifier
74VK3XBx7g0y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3XBx7g0y
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ISBN
9780791473054 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
610
MMS ID
991023800639702626
