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Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents

In this book, the physician and philosopher Raymond Tallis yokes together his diverse intellectual interests to address important questions about our well-being. In a series of stimulating and impassioned arguments, he establishes the truth about, among many other things, recent health scares, explains why patients compete for our doctors' and nurses' time; why the exploding popularity of alternative therapies is actually bad for our health; and how one man's view of the MMR vaccine influenced a nation. This is the summation of a lifetime's thought and medical practice, by one of Britain's most original thinkers. It will, quite simply, change for ever the way we think about ourselves and our health.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781843541271
  • Genres
  • medicine, medical, philosophy
  • Release date
  • 2005