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Hardcover The Old Age Challenge to the Biomedical Model: Paradigm Strain and Health Policy Book

ISBN: 0895031655

ISBN13: 9780895031655

The Old Age Challenge to the Biomedical Model: Paradigm Strain and Health Policy

Central to this book is the idea that the United States is in the midst of a health care crisis, one that will be exacerbated as the population continues to age. Longino and Murphy trace the philosophical and technological development of the biomedical model and show its inadequacy to deal with the massive chronic disease demand of the present and the future. They argue that the delivery of health care will meet and survive the old age challenge only...

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