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Paperback Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line Book

ISBN: 0822358883

ISBN13: 9780822358886

Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line

(Part of the Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Series)

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Most of us want and expect medicine's miracles to extend our lives. In today's aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see--it's being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance companies. In Ordinary Medicine Sharon R. Kaufman investigates what drives that storm's "more is better" approach to medicine: a nearly invisible...

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