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Natural causes : an epidemic of wellness, the certainty of dying, and killing ourselves to live longer / Barbara Ehrenreich.
The respected cellular immunologist and author of the best-selling Nickel and Dimed shares cautionary insights into today's healthcare practices to identify the cellular sources of aging and illness while revealing how most treatments are aggressive and offer only an illusion of control and better survivability at the cost of life quality.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781538730928
- ISBN: 1538730928
- Physical Description: xix, 374 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First [large print] edition.
- Publisher: New York : Twelve, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-374). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Midlife revolt -- Rituals of humiliation -- The veneer of science -- Crushing the body -- The madness of mindfulness -- Death in social context -- The war between conflict and harmony -- Cellular treason -- Tiny minds -- "Successful aging" -- The invention of the self -- Killing the self, rejoicing in a living world. |
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| Subject: | Death > Sociological aspects. Aging. |
| Genre: | Large print books. |