Summary of Jeffrey Bland's The Disease Delusion

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#1 The science of genomics has shattered the myth of disease, demonstrating that everyone with type 2 diabetes is not just like everyone else with type 2 diabetes. Rather, these so-called diseases are dysfunctions of each individual’s physiological functioning.

#2 The science of genomics has shattered the myth of disease, demonstrating that everyone with type 2 diabetes is not just like everyone else with type 2 diabetes. Rather, these so-called diseases are dysfunctions of each individual’s physiological functioning.

#3 Genomics has shattered the myth of disease. Everyone with type 2 diabetes is not just like everyone else with type 2 diabetes. Rather, these so-called diseases are dysfunctions of each individual’s physiological functioning.

#4 We are living longer, but many of us are not doing the living very well. We spend far too much of our longer lives like Peter and Catherine—not wholly sick but not wholly well.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350039740

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#1

The science of genomics has shattered the myth of disease, demonstrating that everyone with type 2 diabetes is not just like everyone else with type 2 diabetes. Rather, these so-called diseases are dysfunctions of each individual’s physiological functioning.

#2

The science of genomics has shattered the myth of disease, demonstrating that everyone with type 2 diabetes is not just like everyone else with type 2 diabetes. Rather, these so-called diseases are dysfunctions of each individual’s physiological functioning.

#3

Genomics has shattered the myth of disease. Everyone with type 2 diabetes is not just like everyone else with type 2 diabetes. Rather, these so-called diseases are dysfunctions of each individual’s physiological functioning.

#4

We are living longer, but many of us are not doing the living very well. We spend far too much of our longer lives like Peter and Catherine—not wholly sick but not wholly well.

#5

The science of genomics has shattered the myth of disease, and demonstrated that everyone with type 2 diabetes is not just like everyone else with type 2 diabetes. Rather, these so-called diseases are dysfunctions of each individual’s physiological functioning.

#6

-> The rising burden of chronic illness sets up a very direct challenge to health-care systems around the world. The problem is that our health-care systems are not ready for the challenges.

#7

The process of developing drugs to treat chronic illnesses is based on the fact that an infectious disease can be traced to a single cause or agent. The drugs are designed to interfere with that overly active step in the metabolic process, and they more or less transform the effect of the disease and reduce its symptoms.

#8

The rising burden of chronic illness cannot be attributed to alteration in a single step in the complex metabolic web. Rather, the diseases and conditions we call chronic derive from a variety of causes, each expressed in its own symptom or set of symptoms. And because the drugs for the illnesses treat only the dominant symptoms, you don’t really get over a chronic illness.

#9

The rising burden of chronic illness cannot be attributed to alteration in a single step in the complex metabolic web. Rather, the diseases and conditions we call chronic derive from a variety of causes, each expressed in its own symptom or set of symptoms. And because the drugs for the illnesses treat only the dominant symptoms, you don’t really get over a chronic illness.

#10

The rising burden of chronic illness cannot be attributed to alteration in a single step in the complex metabolic web. The diseases and conditions we call chronic derive from a variety of causes,

Reviews for Summary of Jeffrey Bland's The Disease Delusion

[Michelle Lim · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The summary lightly captures what the book was about. There was a lot of repeats which bulked up the book when it didn't need to be.

[breddy2 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Bizarre way to condense. Not really condensed? Waste of time…