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Book Title
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine Format: Paperback
Genre
General / adult
Narrative Type
book
Intended Audience
General / adult
ISBN
9780465058952

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
0465058957
ISBN-13
9780465058952
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114247883

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
608 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine : Revised Edition
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Military / World War II, Health Care Delivery, History, Essays
Type
Textbook
Author
James Le Fanu
Subject Area
History, Medical
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-540041
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
Eighth Grade
Illustrated
Yes
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
610.9/04
Synopsis
In the years following World War II, medicine won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio. In the same period it also produced treatments to control the progress of Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, test-tube babies. Unquestionably, the medical accomplishments of the postwar years stand at the forefront of human endeavor, yet progress in recent decades has slowed nearly to a halt. In this judicious examination of medicine in our times, which has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, medical doctor and columnist James Le Fanu both surveys the glories of medicine in the postwar years and analyzes the factors that for the past twenty-five years have increasingly widened the gulf between achievement and advancement: the social theories of medicine, ethical issues, and political debates over health care that have hobbled the development of vaccines and discovery of new "miracle" cures. While fully demonstrating the extraordinary progress effected by medical research in the latter half of the twentieth century, Le Fanu also identifies the perils that confront medicine in the twenty-first century. "[From] a respected science writer . . . important information that . . . has been overlooked or ignored by many physicians." -- New Republic "Provocative and engrossing and informative." -- Houston Chronicle, In the years following World War II, medicine not only won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio but also produced treatments to control Parkinsons disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities, too, of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, and test-tube babies. Yet progress in recent decades has slowed nearly to a halt. Doctors are not professionally fulfilled, health care costs are exponentially increasing, and the public is growing more neurotic about its health. In The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, doctor and historian of science and medicine James Le Fanu offers a judicious examination of the medical communitys postwar achievements and outlines the factors that have stalled further advancement.
LC Classification Number
R149.L4 2012

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