The Tyranny of Health - Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle (Hardcover)

Topical and controversial The Tyranny of Health exposes the dangers of the explosion of health awareness for both patients and doctors, using straightforward language to explain the latest health statistics and and research findings. Michael Fitzpatrick, a full-time inner-city GP, argues from his day-to-day experience in the surgery that health propaganda is having a very unhealthy effect on the nation. Patients are made unnecessarily anxious as a result of health scares which have greatly exaggerated the risks of everyday activities such as eating beef, sunbathing and having sex. Doctors no longer seem content with treating disease but are encouraged by the government to tell people how to live more and more aspects of their lives.
Michael Fitzpatrick concludes that doctors should stop trying to make people virtuous. He argues that we need to establish a clear boundry between the worlds of medicine and politics, so that doctors can concentrate on treating the sick - and leave the well alone.

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General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2000
First published:	2001
Authors:	Michael Fitzpatrick
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-23571-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-23571-5
Barcode:	9780415235716

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