Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line

Most of us want and expect medicine's miracles to extend our lives. In today's aging society, however,...
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Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line by Kaufman, Sharon R.

Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line

¥8,004

Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line

¥8,004
Author: Sharon R. Kaufman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Most of us want and expect medicine's miracles to extend our lives. In today's aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see--it's being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance companies. In Ordinary Medicine Sharon R. Kaufman investigates what drives that storm's "more is better" approach to medicine: a nearly invisible chain of social, economic, and bureaucratic forces that has made once-extraordinary treatments seem ordinary, necessary, and desirable. Since 2002 Kaufman has listened to hundreds of older patients, their physicians and family members express their hopes, fears, and reasoning as they faced the line between enough and too much intervention. Their stories anchor Ordinary Medicine. Today's medicine, Kaufman contends, shapes nearly every American's experience of growing older, and ultimately medicine is undermining its own ability to function as a social good. Kaufman's careful mapping of the sources of our health care dilemmas should make it far easier to rethink and renew medicine's goals.


Author: Sharon R. Kaufman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 05/29/2015
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780822358886


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/27/2015
Library Journal 05/01/2015 pg. 93

About the Author
Sharon R. Kaufman is Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of ...And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life.

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