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September 26th 2012: Seeking Sickness

Why wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right? Not so fast, says this professor. Seeking Sickness takes us inside the world of medical screening, where well-meaning practitioners and a profit-motivated industry offer to save our lives by exploiting our fears. He discusses that promoters of screening overpromise on its benefits and downplay its harms, which can range from the merely annoying to the life threatening. If you're facing a screening test for breast or prostat

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Alan Cassels

Alan Cassels is a pharmaceutical policy researcher at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. He studies how clinical research,
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