The Role Of Medicine Dream Mirage Or Nemesis In analyzing the factors that have improved health and enhanced longevity during the last three centuries Thomas McKeown contends that nutritional environmental and behavioral changes have been and
In analyzing the factors that have improved health and enhanced longevity during the last three centuries, Thomas McKeown contends that nutritional, environmental, and behavioral changes have been and will be important than specific medical measures, especially clinical or curative measures.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest priIn analyzing the factors that have improved health and enhanced longevity during the last three centuries, Thomas McKeown contends that nutritional, environmental, and behavioral changes have been and will be important than specific medical measures, especially clinical or curative measures.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print on demand technology to again make available previously out of print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Dated now; yet strangely current in its holistic view of modern medicine. I would like to think that modern doctors have moved beyond the mechanistic view of disease - but a glimpse of a ward round in a teaching hospital would negate this.