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The Tyranny of Health Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle

Paperback • 2001 • English • 1. edition

The Tyranny of Health Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle

By Michael Fitzpatrick

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About the book

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 result of health scares which have greatly exaggerat...Show more

Public health and preventive medicine

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ISBN

9780415235723

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published year

2001

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Tyranny of Health Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle

Format

Paperback

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