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Our Present Complaint : American Medicine, Then and Now.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801896057
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Our Present ComplaintDDC classification:
  • 610
LOC classification:
  • R151.R67
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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