Ordinary medicine : extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line

The Resource Ordinary medicine : extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line
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Ordinary medicine : extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line
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extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line
Statement of responsibility
Sharon R. Kaufman
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Language
eng
Summary
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 chain of social, economic, and bureaucratic forces that has made once-extraordinary treatments seem ordinary, necessary, and desirable. Since 2002, Kaufman has listened to hundreds of older patients, their physicians, and family members express their hopes, fears, and reasoning as they faced the line between enough and too much intervention. Their stories anchor Ordinary Medicine. Today's medicine, Kaufman contends, shapes nearly every American's experience of growing older, and ultimately medicine is undermining its own ability to function as a social good
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Cataloging source
NcD/DLC
Dewey number
362.10973
Index
index present
LC call number
RA395.A3
LC item number
K385 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2015 F-594
  • W 84.1
Series statement
Critical global health
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