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

• Autore: Rosenberg Charles E
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, MD, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007; Baltimore, MD, USA, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 20071101; Johns Hopkins University Press
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 610
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - United States - History; Medical care - United States - History; MEDICAL; Health Care Delivery
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Our Present Complaint
• ISBN: 0-8018-9605-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824737903321
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