Worried sick
Subtitle: a prescription for health in an overtreated America
By: Nortin M. Hadler.
Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780807831878
Subjects: Medical care -- United States; Medical policy -- United States; Older people -- Medical care -- United States; Medical care -- Utilization -- United States; Health care reform -- United States; Delivery of Health Care -- utilization -- United States -- Popular Works; Aging -- psychology -- United States -- Popular Works; Health Policy -- United States -- Popular Works; Health Promotion -- United States -- Popular works; Unnecessary Procedures -- utilization -- United States -- Popular Works
Genres: Popular Works.; Popular works.
Notes: "A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-353) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Methuselah complex; title: The heart of the matter; title: Risky business : cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure; title: You are not what you eat; title: Gut check; title: Breast cancer prevention : screening the evidence; title: The beleaguered prostate; title: Disease mongering; title: Creakiness; title: It's in your mind; title: Aging is not a disease; title: Working to death; title: "Alternative" therapies are not "complementary"; title: Assuring health, insuring disease.