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Can Medicine Be Cured? - The Corruption of a Profession (Paperback) Loot Price: R272
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Can Medicine Be Cured? - The Corruption of a Profession (Paperback): Seamus O'Mahony

Can Medicine Be Cured? - The Corruption of a Profession (Paperback)

Seamus O'Mahony; Narrated by Brian Walsh

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A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. By the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now.

Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals.

He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics, and a neglect of things that can't easily be measured, like compassion.

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Imprint: Head of Zeus
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2020
Authors: Seamus O'Mahony
Narrators: Brian Walsh
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-1-78854-455-9
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science
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LSN: 1-78854-455-2
Barcode: 9781788544559

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