What If Medicine Disappeared?

What If Medicine Disappeared?Argues convincingly, if counterintuitively, that modern medicine has little impact on longevity or mortality. 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

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