Title: Risky medicine
Description: "Will ever-more sensitive screening tests for cancer lead to longer, better lives? Will anticipating and trying to prevent the future complications of chronic disease lead to better health? Not always, says Robert Aronowitz. In fact, it often is hurting us... Drawing on such controversial examples as HPV vaccines, cancer screening programs, and the cancer survivorship movement, Aronowitz demonstrates that patients and their doctors have come to believe, perilously, that far too many medical interventions are worthwhile because they promise to control our fears and reduce uncertainty." -- Taken from book flyleaf.
Subjects: Medical care, Preventive Medicine, Diseases, Social aspects, Risk factors, History, Medicine, preventive, Medical care, united states, Risk Assessment, History, 20th Century, Preventitive Medicine
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century