Description
| Product ID: | 9781913348151 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Overkill |
| Subtitle: | when modern medicine goes too far |
| Authors: | Author: Dr Paul Offit |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Medicine: general issues, Medicine: general issues, Public health and preventive medicine, General practice / Family medicine, History of medicine, Diseases and disorders, Philosophy of science, Popular science, Microbiology (non-medical), Family and health, Popular medicine and health, Public health & preventive medicine, General practice, History of medicine, Diseases & disorders, Philosophy of science, Popular science, Virology (non-medical), Family & health, Popular medicine & health |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Is lowering your temperature when you have a fever helpful? Do you really need to finishevery course of antibiotics? Or could some of the treatments you think are healing youactually be harming you?Medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades. But while we have learned a lot, we still rely on medical interventions that are vastly out of date and can adversely affect our health. In this game-changing book, infectious-disease expert and Rotavirus vaccine inventor Dr Offit highlights fifteen common medical interventions still recommended and practised bymedical professionals, despite clear evidence that they are harmful — including the treatment of acid reflux in babies and the reliance on heart stents and knee surgery. By presenting medical alternatives, Overkill gives patients invaluable information to help them ask their doctors better questions and to advocate for their own health. |
| Imprint Name: | Scribe Publications |
| Publisher Name: | Scribe Publications |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-11-03 |
