Getting what we deserve health and medical care in America /

Sommer, Alfred, 1942-

Getting what we deserve health and medical care in America / [electronic resource] : Alfred Sommer. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. - xii, 133 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-125) and index.

Genesis : from few to many-in fits and starts -- Disease is the sum of all evils -- Genes : sometimes "destiny," sometimes not -- The complex nature of causality -- The consequences of our own behavior -- Choosing the healthier lifestyle -- From science to policy : the path is anything but linear -- The U.S. health care system -- Who's healthy? Who's not? Why?.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Public health--United States.
Health.
Medical policy--United States.


Electronic books.

RA445 / .S66 2009

362.1