Research Catalog

Title

Honest medicine : shattering the myths about aging and health care / Donald J. Murphy.

Author

Murphy, Donald J.,

Publication

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Child, Julia

Description

ix, 326 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Aged
• Aged > Popular Works
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Geriatrics
• Geriatrics
• Health Behavior
• Health Services for the Aged
• Older people > Health and hygiene
• Older people > Health and hygiene
• Older people > Medical care
• Older people > Medical care
• Primary Prevention
• Risk

Genre/Form

• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Popular Work

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-316) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. An Honest View of Medicine. 1. Healthy Skepticism. 2. Numbers Behind the Medical "Facts" 3. Medicine and the Media. 4. The Biases of Doctors and Patients -- pt. II. Routine Visits with Your Doctor. 5. The Annual Checkup. 6. Routine Tests. 7. Complex Tests -- pt. III. Risk Reduction. 8. Medicines. 9. An Aspirin a Day? 10. Osteoporosis. 11. Hypertension. 12. Cholesterol. 13. Arrhythmias. 14. Diabetes -- pt. IV. Symptom Relief. 15. Angina and Congestive Heart Failure. 16. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. 17. Osteoarthritis. 18. Dyspepsia. 19. Urinary Incontinence. 20. Dementia -- pt. V. What Matters Most. 21. Health Outside Your Doctor's Office. 22. You and Your Doctor -- A Relationship Built on Honesty.

ISBN

• 0871135876
• 9780871135872

LCCN

^^^94027801^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library