Last Well Person

How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System

By Nortin M. Hadler
Categories: Health & Medicine
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Hardcover : 9780773527959, 328 pages, August 2004
Paperback : 9780773532540, 328 pages, April 2007
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773572256, 328 pages, August 2004

Description

Hadler systematically builds the case that many medical interventions are hazardous to our health. Especially insidious is the misuse of longevity statistics in turning the difficulties experienced through a natural course of life, such as aging and osteoporosis, into illnesses. He argues that unfounded assertions and flagrant marketing have led to the medicalization of everyday life and he offers practical solutions on such topics as aging, obesity, adult onset diabetes, and back problems. In The Last Well Person Hadler addresses the tough questions about our health care, cutting through the medical white noise.