Our present complaint American medicine, then and now / Charles E. Rosenberg.

Author/creator Rosenberg, Charles E.
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Descriptionvi, 214 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: the history of our present complaint -- The tyranny of diagnosis: specific entities and individual experience -- Contested boundaries: psychiatry, disease, and diagnosis -- Banishing risk: or the more things change, the more they remain the same -- Pathologies of progress: the idea of civilization as risk -- The new enchantment: genetics, medicine, and society -- Alternative to what? complementary to whom?: on the scientific project in medicine -- Holism in twentieth-century medicine always in opposition -- Mechanism and morality: on bioethics in context -- Anticipated consequences: historians, history, and health policy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007013960
ISBN9780801887154 :
ISBN0801887151

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