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Healthy lifestyles: The antecedents The Health Culture

Although the desire to maintain health and recover from illness is certainly nothing new historically, there was something distinctly different about the promotion of healthy lifestyles starting in the 1970s. Why did this happen when it did? The 1970s saw greatly … See more

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WEBThe quality of health care depends on many things, but certainly medical education is uniquely significant. Following four years of medical school, the additional …

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What is healthism

WEBIn 1980 Robert Crawford defined healthism as “the preoccupation with personal health as a primary – often the primary – focus for the definition and …

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What is healthism

WEBPosted by Jan on February 20, 2012 @ 3:20 pm. In part one of this post I explained the most common meaning of healthism (an excessive preoccupation with healthy lifestyles …

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The tyranny of health then and now The Health Culture

WEBWhen we hear the words “tyranny of health” these days, it’s usually a reference to the tyranny of a government imposing unwanted health care on its citizens. …

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Can better care for the neediest patients lower costs

WEBIn yet another inspiring, beautifully written, and potentially influential New Yorker article, Atul Gawande tells the story of pilot projects by rogue doctors who reduce …

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On healthism, the social determinants of health, conformity

WEB2 Responses to On healthism, the social determinants of health, conformity, & embracing the abnormal: (1) Bodies, minds & medicine

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On healthism, the social determinants of health, conformity

WEBSharon, Wow, I am honored by your response. Thank you so much. I am passionate about inequality, the social determinants of health, and the role of …

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US healthcare: Atul Gawande has some good news

WEBThe good news for doctors. Gawande credits the Affordable Care Act for the change he observed in McAllen. In particular, he cites its provision for accountable-care …

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Health care inequality: The US vs. Europe The Health Culture

WEBSources: Robert Walgate, European health systems face scrutiny in US debate, The Lancet, Vol. 374 No. 9600 p. 1407-1408, October 24, 2009 Mark R. Rank, …

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From healthism to overdiagnosis The Health Culture

WEBFrom healthism to overdiagnosis. Posted by Jan on April 6, 2011 @ 11:45 pm. In his new book, Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health, Dr. H. …

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The patient with a list of questions The Health Culture

WEBBefore your appointment, make a list that includes: Detailed descriptions of your symptoms. Information about medical problems you’ve had in the past. Information …

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Why the US doesn’t have universal health care

WEBThe US government fails to use its bargaining power. One way other countries control costs is by using their leverage as the (almost) exclusive buyer of …

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Why is it so hard to reduce US health care costs

WEBWe know that some physicians and health care providers manage to operate at less than 20% of the average cost of care, without sacrificing quality. If …

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Edward Kennedy: Healthcare is a fundamental right, not a privilege

WEBThe cause of Kennedy’s life was not, after all, praise or compliments. It was, as he said, to “guarantee that every American…will have decent, quality health care as …

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The video of Neda Soltan’s death The Health Culture

WEBOf course the death of Neda Soltan is not a “good death” on a deathbed surrounded by the soon-to-be bereaved. There’s definitely an argument to be made that …

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Evidence of successful aging The Health Culture

WEBA personals ad from a recent New York Review of Books:. WOMAN, 79 (LOOKS 78), Upper West Side pseudo-intellectual, Europe 4 years, wants man’s …

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History of patient modesty part 2: Convincing patients to disrobe

WEBConvincing patients to accept the new exam. The new physical exam was a sudden rupture of conventional modesty and privacy. We can infer the resistance of …

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The tyranny of health The Health Culture

WEBThroughout history people have been concerned about threats to their health. Bubonic plague killed 200 million people. The death rate for women who gave …

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Tony Judt and the Move for ALS bike ride The Health Culture

WEBSaul Goldberg and Tony Judt Saul Goldberg, a student of Tony Judt, will be cycling across the country this month to raise money for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and …

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Tony Judt lives on The Health Culture

WEBI miss Tony Judt. As I read the news every day, I speculate on what he would have to say. I was thinking of him during the mid-term elections as I listened to blatant …

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Tag: Tony Judt The Health Culture

WEBBack in the early days of the Great Recession, the LA Times ran a story called Can a troubled economy actually improve public health? [S]trange as it may …

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