LEADER 03074nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910821580103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-49240-6 010 $a9786613587633 010 $a0-8135-4812-8 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813548128 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007920 035 $a(EBL)870075 035 $a(OCoLC)593295655 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000336691 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11248711 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336691 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10281923 035 $a(PQKB)11330679 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC870075 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8063 035 $a(DE-B1597)526401 035 $a(OCoLC)1121058195 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813548128 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL870075 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10367270 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358763 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007920 100 $a20090224d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDiagnosis, therapy, and evidence $econundrums in modern American medicine /$fGerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, NJ $cRutgers University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 225 1 $aCritical issues in health and medicine 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4671-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAbbreviations -- $tChapter 1. Rhetoric and Reality in Modern American Medicine -- $tChapter 2. Medical Rivalry and Etiological Speculation: The Case of Peptic Ulcer -- $tChapter 3. How Theory Makes Bad Practice: The Case of Tonsillectomy -- $tChapter 4. How Science Tries to Explain Deadly Diseases: Coronary Heart Disease and Cancer -- $tChapter 5. Transforming Amorphous Stress into Discrete Disorders: The Case of Anxiety -- $tChapter 6. Depression: Creating Consensus from Diagnostic Confusion -- $tChapter 7. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Result of Abnormal Environments or Abnormal Individuals? -- $tEpilogue. Where Do We Go from Here? -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Authors 330 $aEmploying historical and contemporary data and case studies, the authors also examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment. 410 0$aCritical issues in health and medicine. 606 $aSocial medicine$zUnited States 606 $aDiseases and history$zUnited States 606 $aDiagnosis 615 0$aSocial medicine 615 0$aDiseases and history 615 0$aDiagnosis. 676 $a362.1 700 $aGrob$b Gerald N.$f1931-$0210740 701 $aHorwitz$b Allan V$0906604 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821580103321 996 $aDiagnosis, therapy, and evidence$93915845 997 $aUNINA