{"product_id":"can-medicine-be-cured-9781788544542","title":"Can Medicine Be Cured","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan Medicine Be Cured\u003c\/strong\u003e by O'Mahony, Seamus. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781788544542.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. By the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now.\nSeamus OMahony 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.\nHe 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 cant easily be measured, like compassion.\nA deeply fascinating and rousing book Mail on Sunday.\nWhat makes this book a delightful, if unsettling read, is not just OMahonys scholarly and witty prose, but also his brutal honesty The Times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Apollo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924741357621,"sku":"ByrdShop_1788544544","price":101.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781788544542.jpg?v=1794140135","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/can-medicine-be-cured-9781788544542","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}