Argues that the pace of medical discoveries has slowed in the last twenty-five years due to excessive emphasis on the social and political aspects of health car

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine presents a comprehensive and searching reappraisal of the science, philosophy and politics of modern medicine.

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At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have become accustomed to medical breakthroughs and conditioned to assume that, regardless of illnesses, doctors alm

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