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Health wars : on the global front lines of modern medicine
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- Creator
- Richard Horton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : New York Review of Books, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 592 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781590170243, 1590170245
- OCLC
- ocm52079592
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-565) and index.
- Introduction: The Dis-Eases of Medicine -- 1. Infection: The Global Threat -- 2. The Plagues Are Flying -- 3. Waiting for the Biowar -- Epilogue to Chapters 1, 2, and 3 -- 4. Surviving Conflict -- 5. The African Challenge -- Epilogue to Chapters 4 and 5 -- 6. Vaccine Myths -- 7. An Autopsy of Dr. Osler -- 8. Truth and Heresy About AIDS -- 9. A Fatal Erosion of Integrity -- 10. Secret Society -- 11. World Health Disorganization -- 12. How Sick Is Modern Medicine? -- 13. DNA: The Life of a Dead Molecule -- 14. Protecting the Breast -- 15. The Final Cut -- 16. In the Danger Zone -- 17. The Health of Peoples -- 18. Taking Dignity Seriously
Subjects
- Medicine -- Miscellanea.
- Medical care -- Miscellanea.
- Social medicine -- Miscellanea.
- Medicine -- trends -- popular works.
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- Physician-Patient Relations -- popular works.
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- Delivery of Health Care -- trends -- popular works.
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