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The last well person : how to stay well despite the health-care system
- Title
- The last well person : how to stay well despite the health-care system / Nortin M. Hadler.
- Author
- Hadler, Nortin M.
- Publication
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2004], ©2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | RA776.9 .H23 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 313 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Last Well Person offers practical solutions on topics including aging, obesity, diabetes, and back problems. Even your doctor will want to consult it! If you're not afraid of seeing conventional wisdom overturried by hard facts, if you're ready to educate yourself and to trust your own judgment, you are ready for Dr. Hadler."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-299) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. The Methuselah complex -- 1. Interventional cardiology and kindred delusions -- 2. Fats, fads, and fate -- 3. You and your colon -- 4. Breast cancer and how the women's movement got it wrong -- 5. Prostate envy -- Pt. 2. Worried sick -- 6. Musculoskeletal predicaments -- 7. Medicalization of the "worried well" -- 8. Turning aging into a disease -- 9. Health hazards in the hateful job -- 10. Why are alternative and complementary therapies thriving? -- Epilogue : a ripe old age.
- ISBN
- 0773527958 (alk. paper)
- OCLC
- ocm54774535
- SCSB-5135959
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries