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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part 1. Challenges
1. N of 1: Making Individual Decisions in Intervention-Saturated Societies
2. The Blurred Experience of Disease and Intervention
3. Downsides to Upsides: Our Dependency on Interventions and Vulnerability to Their Loss
4. The Entangling of Clinical Practice With Experiments

Part 2. Cases
5. “We Still Don’t Know”: The Challenges of Resuscitating the Youngest, Most Intervened-In Bodies
6. Prostate Cancer: People Transforming a Diagnosis, and a Diagnosis Transforming People
7. Overdiagnosis: The Right Diagnosis?

Part 3. Looking Forward
8. Loosening the Knots

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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