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

by Sharon R. Kaufman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822358883
• ISBN13: 9780822358886
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"