- Sociological aspects, Death, Aging, Control (psychology)
Offers insight into healthcare practices, identifying the cellular sources of aging and illness and revealing that aggressive treatments provide an illusion of control and survivability at the cost of life quality.
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 253
- Publisher
- Twelve, Granta Books, Hachette Book Group and Blackstone Audio
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781783782420
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"Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade", and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America." - Wikipedia
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