The Tyranny of Health. Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle

The Tyranny of Health. Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Filzpatrick M. Michael
Summary: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 upon the nation. Patients are made unnecessarily anxious as a result of health scares which have greatly exaggerated the risks of everyday activities such as eating beef, sunbathing and having sex. Doctors no longer seem content with treating disease but are encouraged by the government to tell people how to live more and more aspects of their lives. Recent NHS reforms in Britain are pushing doctors both to play a wider role in regulating the behaviour of their patients and to ration the allocation of resources to patient care. But people need less nannying when they are well and more health care when they are ill. Michael Fitzpatrick concludes that doctors should stop trying to make people virtuous. He argues that we need to establish a clear boundary between the worlds of medicine and politics, so that doctors can concentrate on treating the sick - and leave the well alone.
Language:English
Published: London, Taylor & Francis, 2003
Subjects:
Здравоохранение
медицина
гигиена
гигиенические нормы
гигиенические правила
гигиенические условия
болезни
образ жизни
здоровье
английский язык
Великобритания
Format: Book
KOHA link:https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=209079

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