Thames And Hudson Ltd is medicine still good for us?

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• The sophistication of modern medicine is an exceptional feat in which many of us benefit from unprecedented levels of care
• Yet medical progress comes at a price: resistance to antibiotics
• Ever-mutating superbugs and the unintended yet devastating consequences of prescribing opiates are all part of today’s medical landscape
• Is the natural human experience being over ‘medicalized’ as we seek pharmaceutical remedies for every kind of suffering
• Are its astronomical costs furthering global inequality
• Where has modern medicine failed us and how does it need to change
• This incisive and provocatively illustrated volume interrogates the economics and ethics of modern practices and the impact they have on all our lives