A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics, and a neglect of things that can't easily be measured, like compassion.
- ISBN10 1838932453
- ISBN13 9781838932459
- Publish Date 10 October 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Head of Zeus
- Edition Unabridged edition
- Format Audiobook (CD)
- Duration 7 hours and 30 minutes
- Language English