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Product Description: Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget—nearly 175 billion—is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments...read more

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9780465023127 | 1 edition (Basic Books, October 2, 2012), cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable.

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Product Description: Everyone knows the old adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," but we seem not to live by it. In the Western world's health care it is commonly observed that prevention is underfunded while treatment attracts greater overall priority...read more
By Paul T. Menzel (editor)

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9780199837373 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 14, 2011, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: Everyone knows the old adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," but we seem not to live by it.

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Product Description: This book looks at what individuals can do to stay healthy, as well as the wider issues of disease prevention and treatment around the world.

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9781406228618 | Gardners Books, June 8, 2011, cover price $24.10

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9781410943088 | Raintree Pub, July 1, 2011, cover price $9.49 | About this edition: This book looks at what individuals can do to stay healthy, as well as the wider issues of disease prevention and treatment around the world.

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9781410943019 | Raintree Pub, July 1, 2011, cover price $33.99 | About this edition: This book looks at what individuals can do to stay healthy, as well as the wider issues of disease prevention and treatment around the world.
9781410943224 | Raintree Pub, July 1, 2011, cover price $33.99 | About this edition: This book looks at what individuals can do to stay healthy, as well as the wider issues of disease prevention and treatment around the world.

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A groundbreaking look at the state of America's medicine argues that environmental factors are the biggest factor affecting the nation's health and suggests that some industries are particularly hazardous to the collective well-being in the U.S. Reprint.

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9780807021163 | Beacon Pr, May 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A groundbreaking look at the state of America's health argues that environmental factors are the biggest factor affecting the nation's health and suggests that some industries are particularly hazardous to the collective well-being in the U.

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9780807021170 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, May 15, 2006), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A groundbreaking look at the state of America's medicine argues that environmental factors are the biggest factor affecting the nation's health and suggests that some industries are particularly hazardous to the collective well-being in the U.

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