The role of medicine : drama, mirage or nemesis? / Thomas McKeown.
By: McKeown, Thomas
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Blackwell, 1979Description: xvi, 207 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0631107010; 0631112618 .Subject(s): Public healthDDC classification: 614 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 614 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00036438 | ||
| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 614 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00036450 |
Includes index.
Introduction -- Part One Concepts of health and disease: Evolution of health concepts -- Inheritance, environment and disease -- Part Two Determinants of health: Decline of mortality -- Infectious diseases -- Non-infective conditions -- Health in the past -- Health in the future -- Medical achievement -- Part Three The role of medicine: Non-personal health services -- Clinical services -- Medical education -- Medical research -- Dream, mirage or nemesis? -- Medicine as an institution.