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    Can Medicine be Cured?: The Corruption Of A Profession

    Written by Seamus O'Mahony

    Narrated by Brian Walsh

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    A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics, and a neglect of things that can't easily be measured, like compassion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Audio
    Release dateOct 31, 2019
    ISBN9781838932466
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    Seamus O'Mahony

    Seamus O'Mahony spent many years working for the National Health Service in Britain. He now lives in his native Cork, in the south of Ireland. He is the author of The Way We Die Now, which won a BMA Book Award in 2017, Can Medicine Be Cured? and The Ministry of Bodies.

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      Second book of this author. And both are depressing ?. I recommend them to all