Kniha Seeking Sickness Alan Cassels

Seeking Sickness

Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Dostupnost: 50 % šance
Prohledáme celý svět
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Why wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2012
Stránek
176
EAN
9781771000321
ISBN
1771000325
Enbook ID
11148073
Hmotnost
255
Rozměry
139 x 215 x 19

Kompletní 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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