Medicine matters after all : measuring the benefits of medical care, a healthy lifestyle, and a just social environment

The author of this work argues that medicine plays an important role in convalescence, counteracting the widely accepted claim that medicine has little to contribute to health, it is unhealthy presonal habits and social and economic deprivation that are largely responsible. The author believes that medicine and all these factors have a large effect on health, and the contributions of each should be carefully weighed up.