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An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine
 
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An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine (Hardcover)
by Theodore Dalrymple (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 138 pages
  • Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (12 Jul 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0715629735
  • ISBN-13: 978-0715629734
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 535,573 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Health is on of those subjects that seems easy to define and then, the closer one gets, is more and more difficult to understand. Does the health of a schizophrenic really improve by being sedated and kept in an asylum? Is a course of Prozac or psychotherapy aimed to make someone happy really a medicine? These incompatible views are most visible in the NHS which has over the decades become the focus of all these projections of health. At the expense of the taxpayer many are being "cured" while there is no money for some of those who have physical ailments in a real sense. In this book, Theodore Dalrymple sets out to tear into the myths that he believes our politicians have created, with anecdotes from his own experience as a doctor.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A physician's sagacity and bluster, 22 Nov 2001
Dalrymple, a practising doctor, is a member of the conservative intelligentsia and writer of grumbling missives for The Spectator. Endowed with a special dose of wisdom that many doctors consider theirs, he has written this short polemic on modern medicine, taking every care to offend every liberal more in the process.

Disguised by controversial rhetoric are some terribly sane ideas that counter the orthodoxies of current medical thinking. Savaging the idolisation of health, the medicalisation of anti-social behaviour, and "rights culture", Dalrymple instead advocates liberty and personal responsibility - necessary for individual and communal happiness, respectively. However, this libertarianism, while refreshing, seems only partially expounded. For example, what are the medical aspects of the debate concerning the legalisation of drugs? And what m