Prevention—How Misuse of a Concept Undercuts Its Worth

Some health leaders and researchers have launched mass prevention programs without sound biomedical groundwork. They have oversold the benefits of prevention and underestimated the secondary effects. Some have forced nonmedical concerns into the medical model. Others have blurred the distinctions be...

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Authors: Goodman, Lenn E. (Author) ; Goodman, Madeleine J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1986
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 1986, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 26-38
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