The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle

by Michael Fitzpatrick

Book Overview

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 on the nation. Patients are made unnecessarily anxious as a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415235715
• ISBN13: 9780415235716
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"