1st Edition
The Tyranny of Health Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle
By Michael Fitzpatrick
Copyright 2001
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Topical and controversial The Tyranny of Health exposes the dangers of the explosion of health awareness for both patients and doctors, using straightforward language to explain the latest health statistics and research findings. Michael Fitzpatrick, a full-time inner-city GP, argues from his day-to-day experience in the surgery that health propaganda is having a very unhealthy effect on the... Read more
Preface, Glossary of acronyms, 1 Introduction, 2 Health scares and moral panics, 3 The regulation of lifestyle, 4 Screening, 5 The politics of health promotion, 6 The expansion of health, 7 The personal is the medical, 8 The crisis of modern medicine, 9 Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Michael Fitzpatrick
'A thrilling account of the problems encountered by doctors in present-day medical practice ... highly recommended to be read also by nurses.' - Nursing Ethics 2003, 10 (3)
