Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine

by Alan S Gerber, Conor M Dowling, Eric M Patashnik, et al.

Book Overview

How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine

The U.S. medical system is touted as the most advanced in the world, yet many common treatments are not based on sound science. Treatments can go into widespread use before they are rigorously evaluated, and every year patients are harmed because they receive too many procedures--and too few treatments that really work. Unhealthy Politics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691158819
• ISBN13: 9780691158815
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"