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.
- Author
- Raymond Tallis
- Format
- paperback
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781843541271
- Genres
- medicine, medical, philosophy
- Release date
- 2005
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