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

utilization of pathogen-free seed

‘beat’ and rock music) and that the music invariably exacerbated inter-generational tensions

and trauma

Aimed at scientists

This means that our experience does not start from our own intentions or from our common understanding

occurrence and correlations can be formulated thereby

The notion of the sacred has long informed the work of British dramatists like Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard

This short monograph presents the theory of electromagnetic pulses in a simple and physical way

usually discussed as a purely British phenomenon

A ground-breaking study on the concept of precision warfare and how it has shaped our view of armed conflict

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" having shared a life of illness with two brothers and three sisters