What If Medicine Disappeared? Dr Cassio Egidio Cavenaghi Pretes

What If Medicine Disappeared? Dr Cassio Egidio Cavenaghi PretesArgues convincingly, if counterintuitively, that modern medicine has little impact on longevity or mortality. In this thought provoking book, sociologists Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea ask what would happen if Western medicine were to disappear. Using a rigorous and imaginative method a thought experiment Markle and McCrea evaluate medicine's impact on mortality and our national health. They examine various aspects of medicine, such as

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This approach starts with the local theoretical and philosophical frameworks from five imagined centres and then considers the knowledges about art and globalisation that emerge from a combination of these concepts

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This book discusses and analyses series since 2000 from Spain (in both Spanish and Catalan)

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