The Nature of Health presents a coherent, affordable and logical way to build a healthcare system.
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Michael Fine's preface | p. xi |
| Jim Peters' preface | p. xiii |
| About the authors | p. xvi |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| What Health is Not | p. 1 |
| Demented and Contracted | p. 3 |
| The health we have | p. 9 |
| The health we buy | p. 15 |
| What we measure is not health | p. 21 |
| Medications are not health | p. 29 |
| Medicine is not health either | p. 37 |
| Science is business, not health | p. 43 |
| Hancock County | p. 48 |
| What Went Wrong and Why | p. 53 |
| The Happy Victim | p. 54 |
| The human tsunami | p. 59 |
| The reductive trap | p. 75 |
| The trap is sprung | p. 83 |
| How longevity kidnapped health | p. 91 |
| Medical services and communities | p. 97 |
| The zero-sum game | p. 103 |
| Three People, Three Aortas | p. 117 |
| What Health is | p. 125 |
| A. Fib | p. 127 |
| What Webster thinks | p. 131 |
| Old villages, new lives | p. 141 |
| Toward a social definition of health | p. 145 |
| Health and community together | p. 151 |
| Health and fairness | p. 165 |
| Amish Boy | p. 169 |
| What's Next? | p. 173 |
| Who gets what? | p. 175 |
| How should it look? | p. 187 |
| How should we pay for it? | p. 199 |
| Which doctors? | p. 213 |
| References | p. 225 |
| Bibliography | p. 237 |
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Michael Fine, M.D. (www.michaelfinemd.com) is a family physician, a nationally known health policy expert, and the Managing Director of HealthAccessRI (www.healthaccessri), the first of its kind in the nation network of primary care practices that provide affordable primary care to people without employer provided health insurance, which is about to undertake a nationwide expansion. For the last ten years, Dr. Fine has been the top ranked family physician in Rhode Island Monthly's Best Doctors in RI series. Until December of 2008, when he stepped down to run HealthAccessRI, Dr. Fine was Physician-in-Chief of the Departments of Family and Community Medicine at Rhode Island and the Miriam Hospitals, founder and Physician Operating Officer of Hillside Avenue Family and Community Medicine ( the largest family practice in Rhode Island), and a George Soros/Medicine as a Professional Fellow 2000-2002. Dr Fine's 2007 book The Nature of Health (www.thenatureofhealthbook.com), co-authored with James Peters, is now in its third printing from Radcliffe Publishing (UK). Dr Fine was featured in g a PBS Special (Caring for Your Parents, March and April 2008) and played the part of a neurologist on Brotherhood. Dr. Fine was an invited guest at The White House in 1993, for the unveiling of the Clinton Health Care Reform proposal after having participated in its development; was on the National Health Policy Council for the Obama Campaign and Transition.
