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Can medicine be cured? : the corruption of a profession / Seamus O'Mahony.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Head of Zeus 2019Edition: 1stDescription: viii, 326 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781788544542 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 23
LOC classification:
  • RA418
Contents:
1. People live so long now, 2.The greatest breakthrough since lunchtime, 3.Fifty golden years, 4.Big bad science, 5.The medical mininformation mess, 6.How to invent a disease, 7. Stop the awareness now, 8.The never-ending war on cancer, 9.Consumerism, the NHS and the mature civilization, 10. Quantified, digitized and for sale, 11.The Anti-harlots, 12.The Mcnamara fallacy, 13.The mendacity of empathy, 14.The mirage of progress
Summary: Seamus O'Mahony skewers the delusions that make modern medicine so overweening and so insecure. He writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the fallacy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals as if they were customers in a supermarket. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project that promise to isolate a gene and a cure for every ailment. O'Mahony insists that Freud created a climate where we all see ourselves as needing therapy, and the world as a vast clinic where non-medical difficulties deserve to be treated.
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"An Apollo book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. People live so long now, 2.The greatest breakthrough since lunchtime, 3.Fifty golden years, 4.Big bad science, 5.The medical mininformation mess, 6.How to invent a disease, 7. Stop the awareness now, 8.The never-ending war on cancer, 9.Consumerism, the NHS and the mature civilization, 10. Quantified, digitized and for sale, 11.The Anti-harlots, 12.The Mcnamara fallacy, 13.The mendacity of empathy, 14.The mirage of progress

Seamus O'Mahony skewers the delusions that make modern medicine so overweening and so insecure. He writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the fallacy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals as if they were customers in a supermarket. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project that promise to isolate a gene and a cure for every ailment. O'Mahony insists that Freud created a climate where we all see ourselves as needing therapy, and the world as a vast clinic where non-medical difficulties deserve to be treated.

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