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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824737903321

Autore

Rosenberg Charles E

Titolo

Our Present Complaint : American Medicine, Then and Now / / Charles E. Rosenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, MD, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

Baltimore, MD, USA, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 20071101

Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN

0-8018-9605-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

610

Soggetti

Medicine - United States - History

Medical care - United States - History

MEDICAL

Health Care Delivery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The History of Our Present Complaint -- CHAPTER 2. The Tyranny of Diagnosis: Specific Entities and Individual Experience -- CHAPTER 3. Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis -- CHAPTER 4. Banishing Risk: Or, the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same -- CHAPTER 5. Pathologies of Progress: The Idea of Civilization as Risk -- CHAPTER 6. The New Enchantment: Genetics, Medicine, and Society -- CHAPTER 7. Alternative to What? Complementary to Whom?: On the Scientific Project in Medicine -- CHAPTER 8. Holism in Twentieth-Century Medicine: Always in Opposition -- CHAPTER 9. Mechanism and Morality: On Bioethics in Context -- CHAPTER 10. Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

At a time when clinical care and biomedical research generate as much angst as they offer cures, this volume provides valuable insight into how the practice of medicine has evolved, where it is going, and how



lessons from history can improve its prognosis.