Common Sense About Health
A completely fresh look at what health means, and what it implies for our happiness and survival
Published on 19. December 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-3-659-84477-5 (ISBN)
Description
When you see "health', do you think "medicine"? Have you the remotest idea what health is, or what your health service is trying to achieve? Does your doctor? This is a book that gives you answers to all that. Its author created "Good HealthKeeping" (www.goodhealthkeeping.co.uk), a service for health, which enabled its members to live their own lives competently and confidently with as little medical help as possible. The approach cut the cost of prescribing by more than half. And it threw up an entirely novel way of looking at health, and a perfectly manageable way for anyone to achieve it. It is a blueprint for a radical new policy for any Ministry of Health, and serves equally well as a personal how-to manual for everyone.
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Peter Mansfield studied natural sciences and medicine at Cambridge University and UCH Medical School London, where he was Research Fellow in Community Medicine. He became interested in health as such. He founded an experimental family medical practice from which developed his Good HealthKeeping service, on which this book is based.