Medicine at the Crossroads: The Crisis in Health CareVintage Books, 1994 - 318 pagina's As America at last begins to confront its health-care crisis, this insightful book by the acclaimed author of Becoming a Doctor offers a new look at our medical system. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Dr. Konner shows how foreign practitioners have found effective solutions to problems that still trouble their American counterparts. |
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Pagina 93
... Genetic disorders like sickle - cell anemia and cystic fibrosis - biochemical derangements that start at the outset of life with defective genes and proceed to destroy children and young adults slowly and painfully — will become truly ...
... Genetic disorders like sickle - cell anemia and cystic fibrosis - biochemical derangements that start at the outset of life with defective genes and proceed to destroy children and young adults slowly and painfully — will become truly ...
Pagina 103
... genetics , sequenced genes are being fol- lowed through to the proteins they generate ; where these are de- ficient or abnormal they will be augmented or replaced if possible . Protein functions that become apparent through this process ...
... genetics , sequenced genes are being fol- lowed through to the proteins they generate ; where these are de- ficient or abnormal they will be augmented or replaced if possible . Protein functions that become apparent through this process ...
Pagina 107
... genes are only defective in relation to some environment . If you change that environment it may become meaningless to think of the gene as defective . Consider : By supplying corrective lenses we render the genetic " defect " causing ...
... genes are only defective in relation to some environment . If you change that environment it may become meaningless to think of the gene as defective . Consider : By supplying corrective lenses we render the genetic " defect " causing ...
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ONE The Code of Silence | 3 |
TWO The Temple of Science | 29 |
THREE The Magic Bullet | 61 |
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