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| Author | Shannon Brownlee |
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| Country | United States |
| Subject | Unnecessary health care |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Pages | 342 |
| ISBN | 978-1-58234-580-2 |
| OCLC | 137325161 |
Overtreated - Why too much Medicine is Making us Sicker and Poorer is a 2007 book by Shannon Brownlee about unnecessary health care.
The reviewer for The New York Times said that the book was "the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve—but is so often misunderstood". [1] Kirkus Reviews described the work as "A bombshell of a book: must reading for consumers, their political representatives and all those White House contenders". [2] The reviewer for The Christian Science Monitor said that the author's conclusions in the book were "fascinating, counterintuitive, and potentially revolutionary". [3] A reviewer writing in a social work journal found the book's findings "insightful" and the examples given as "poignant". [4]
The book was reviewed in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association by Norton Hadler, who praised the arguments made, but criticized their quality and the lack of reliance on primary sources. [5] Shannon Doyle in American Journal of Medical Quality similarly praised the timeliness of the book and the detailed arguments, but noted that it the issue is not framed in a political context. [6] In Nursing Ethics , Clair Kaplannotes the extensive use of data in arguments, but was disappointed by the lack of information about nursing. [7]
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