False hopes : why America's quest for perfect health is a recipe for failure / Daniel Callahan.
False hopes : why America's quest for perfect health is a recipe for failure / Daniel Callahan.
False hopes : why America's quest for perfect health is a recipe for failure / Daniel Callahan.
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998.
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N362.10973/61
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Language
English
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Physical content
330 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Creating a Sustainable Medicine -- 2. Arguing with Success: Progress and the Medical Dream -- 3. Sustainable Technology: A Medical Oxymoron? -- 4. Two-faced Nature: Medical Friend or Medical Foe? -- 5. Self, Society, and Suffering -- 6. Public Health and Personal Responsibility -- 7. Can This Mar...
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1998.
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"Callahan proposes a sustainable, steady-state medicine that bows to the biological limits of human nature and gives priority to meeting basic needs. It would have as its goals preventing and treating diseases that afflict the many rather than the few, improving the quality of life of the elderly and the chronically ill, and focusing our resources...
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False hopes : why America's quest for perfect health is a recipe for failure / Daniel Callahan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1998.
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N362.10973/61
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74VvrL2dRJ6d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvrL2dRJ6d
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ISBN
068481109X
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362.10973
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991011334989702626
