Overview

This book argues convincingly, if counterintuitively, that modern medicine has little impact on longevity or mortality.

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9780791473061

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...the authors' analyses may well prove eye-opening and instructive for all consumers of heath care ... the book is lively, engaging, determinedly provocative, and invaluable in assessing not only of our public health care expenditures, but of our private, individual health care decisions. - Metapsychology A very fast, entertaining, and provocative read. - Allan Mazur, author of Biosociology of Dominance and Deference

""...the authors' analyses may well prove eye-opening and instructive for all consumers of heath care ... the book is lively, engaging, determinedly provocative, and invaluable in assessing not only of our public health care expenditures, but of our private, individual health care decisions."" - Metapsychology ""A very fast, entertaining, and provocative read."" - Allan Mazur, author of Biosociology of Dominance and Deference

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Gerald E. Markle is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University and the author of Meditations of a Holocaust Traveler, also published by SUNY Press. Frances B. McCrea is Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University. Together, they are the coauthors of Minutes to Midnight: Nuclear Weapons Protest in America.

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