Health wars : on the global front lines of modern medicine /
In these essays from the New York Review of Books, the Lancet, London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement, Richard Horton examines how conceptions of disease and its treatment have changed over the centuries and looks at an array of medical questions facing both the individual and soc...
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New York, NY :
New York Review of Books,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Infection: the global threat
- The plagues are flying
- Waiting for the biowar
- Surviving conflict
- The African challenge
- Vaccine myths
- An autopsy of Dr. Osler
- Truth and heresy about AIDS
- A fatal erosion of integrity
- Secret society
- World health disorganization
- How sick is modern medicine?
- DNA: the life of a dead molecule
- Protecting the breast
- The final cut
- In the danger zone
- The health of peoples
- Taking dignity seriously.