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The Nature of Health - How America Lost, and Can Regain, a Basic Human Value (Hardcover, 1st New edition)
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The Nature of Health - How America Lost, and Can Regain, a Basic Human Value (Hardcover, 1st New edition)
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This pioneering work addresses a key issue that confronts all
industrialised nations: How do we organise healthcare services in
accordance with fundamental human rights, whilst competing with
scientific and technological advances, powerful commercial
interests and widespread public ignorance? "The Nature of Health"
presents a coherent, affordable and logical way to build a
healthcare system. It argues against a health system fixated on the
pursuit of longevity and suggests an alternative where the ability
of an individual to function in worthwhile relationships is a
better, more human goal. By reviewing the etymology, sociology and
anthropology of health, this controversial guide examines the
meaning of health, and proves how a community-centred healthcare
system improves local economy, creates social capital and is
affordable, rational, personal, and just. "This is badly needed
nourishment for a medical system glutted on technology,
individualism, profit and the pursuit of longevity. Read and be
fed." - Christopher Koller, Health Insurance Commissioner, The
State of Rhode Island, USA. "Unique. Surprising. A real eye-opener.
Just about everyone who doesn't have a vested financial interest in
maintaining the status quo will agree that U.S. healthcare is badly
broken. [This book] is making it possible for us to refocus from
how to provide healthcare to how to achieve health. Their
description of health as successful functioning in community,
rather than as a measure of longevity is a definition that can make
a reader feel healthier as they take gradually appreciate the power
of the concept. On this foundation, it is not as hard as one might
think to outline a healthcare system that is equitable, affordable
and achievable." - Alexander Blount EdD, Professor of Family
Medicine, University of Massacusetts Medical Center.
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