Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America / Nortin M. Hadler.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008], ©2008.

376 pages ; 25 cm.

"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-353) and index.

The Methuselah complex -- The heart of the matter -- Risky business : cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure -- You are not what you eat -- Gut check -- Breast cancer prevention : screening the evidence -- The beleaguered prostate -- Disease mongering -- Creakiness -- It's in your mind -- Aging is not a disease -- Working to death -- "Alternative" therapies are not "complementary" -- Assuring health, insuring disease.