• DOI:10.2307/3349539
Corpus ID: 4830934

The questionable contribution of medical measures to the decline of mortality in the United States in the twentieth century.

@article{Mckinlay1977TheQC,
  title={The questionable contribution of medical measures to the decline of mortality in the United States in the twentieth century.},
  author={J. Mckinlay and S. Mckinlay},
  journal={The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society},
  year={1977},
  volume={55 3},
  pages={
          405-28
        }
}

• J. Mckinlay, S. Mckinlay
• Published 1977
• Medicine
• The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society

". . . by the time laboratory medicine came effectively into the picture the job had been carried far toward completion by the humanitarians and social reformers of the nineteenth century. Their doctrine that nature is holy and healthful was scientifically naive but proved highly effective in dealing with the most important health problems of their age. When the tide is receding from the beach it is easy to have the illusion that one can empty the ocean by removing water with a pail."