03097nam 2200697Ia 450 991082158010332120240516132559.01-280-49240-697866135876330-8135-4812-810.36019/9780813548128(CKB)2520000000007920(EBL)870075(OCoLC)593295655(SSID)ssj0000336691(PQKBManifestationID)11248711(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336691(PQKBWorkID)10281923(PQKB)11330679(MiAaPQ)EBC870075(MdBmJHUP)muse8063(DE-B1597)526401(OCoLC)1121058195(DE-B1597)9780813548128(Au-PeEL)EBL870075(CaPaEBR)ebr10367270(CaONFJC)MIL358763(EXLCZ)99252000000000792020090224d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDiagnosis, therapy, and evidence[electronic resource] conundrums in modern American medicine /Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz1st ed.New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Pressc20101 online resource (271 p.)Critical issues in health and medicineDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-4671-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Rhetoric and Reality in Modern American Medicine -- Chapter 2. Medical Rivalry and Etiological Speculation: The Case of Peptic Ulcer -- Chapter 3. How Theory Makes Bad Practice: The Case of Tonsillectomy -- Chapter 4. How Science Tries to Explain Deadly Diseases: Coronary Heart Disease and Cancer -- Chapter 5. Transforming Amorphous Stress into Discrete Disorders: The Case of Anxiety -- Chapter 6. Depression: Creating Consensus from Diagnostic Confusion -- Chapter 7. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Result of Abnormal Environments or Abnormal Individuals? -- Epilogue. Where Do We Go from Here? -- Notes -- Index -- About the AuthorsEmploying historical and contemporary data and case studies, the authors also examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment.Critical issues in health and medicine.Social medicineUnited StatesDiseases and historyUnited StatesDiagnosisSocial medicineDiseases and historyDiagnosis.362.1Grob Gerald N.1931-210740Horwitz Allan V906604MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821580103321Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence3915845UNINA