What If Medicine Disappeared?

by Frances McCrea, Gerald Markle, Gerald E. Markle

In this thought-provoking book, sociologists Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea ask what would happen if Western medicine were to disappear. Using a rigorous and imaginative method--a thought experiment--Markle and McCrea evaluate medicine's impact on mortality and our national health. They examine various aspects of medicine, such as primary care, surgery, emergency medicine, pharmaceuticals, and mental illness treatment, and convincingly point...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791473058
• ISBN13: 9780791473054
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 245 Pages