Ordinary medicine : extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line
(Book)
Author
Published
Durham [North Carolina] ; Duke University Press, 2015.
ISBN
9780822359029, 0822359022, 9780822358886, 0822358883
Physical Desc
xiii, 314 pages ; 23 cm.
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Concord - Adult | 362.10973 Kaufman | On Shelf |
Dedham - Adult | 362.109 KAUFMAN, S. | On Shelf |
Newton - Adult | 362.1 K16O 2015 | Checked Out |
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Published
Durham [North Carolina] ; Duke University Press, 2015.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780822359029, 0822359022, 9780822358886, 0822358883
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index.
Description
Most of us want and expect medicine's miracles to extend our lives. In today's aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see -- it's being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance companies. In Ordinary Medicine, Sharon R. Kaufman investigates what drives that storm's "more is better" approach to medicine: a nearly invisible chain of social, economic, and bureaucratic forces that has made once-extraordinary treatments seem ordinary, necessary, and desirable. Since 2002, Kaufman has listened to hundreds of older patients, their physicians, and family members express their hopes, fears, and reasoning as they faced the line between enough and too much intervention. Their stories anchor Ordinary Medicine. Today's medicine, Kaufman contends, shapes nearly every American's experience of growing older, and ultimately medicine is undermining its own ability to function as a social good.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kaufman, S. R. (2015). Ordinary medicine: extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line . Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kaufman, Sharon R.. 2015. Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line. Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kaufman, Sharon R.. Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line Duke University Press, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kaufman, Sharon R.. Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line Duke University Press, 2015.
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