Well: What We Need to Talk about when We Talk about Health

Well: What We Need to Talk about when We Talk about Health
ISBN-10
0190916834
ISBN-13
9780190916831
Series
Well
Category
Medical
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2019
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Sandro Galea

Description

"In a stirring and radical new treatise from one of America's most respected voices in health and medicine, Well examines the subtle factors that determine who gets to be healthy in the United States. Physician Sandro Galea reckons with our country's many fraught relationships--with history, money, pain, and pleasure, which are in turn augmented by factors like luck, compassion, and values--in terms of how they determine the health of those in the world's richest country. Well represents a radical new approach to Americans' ingrained understanding of health. It examines the forces that are not typically part of the health discussion--but should be--and is a clarion call for where the country goes from here"--

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