Our present complaint American medicine, then and now / Charles E. Rosenberg.
| Author/creator | Rosenberg, Charles E. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. |
| Description | vi, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2007013960 |
| ISBN | 9780801887154 : |
| ISBN | 0801887151 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Laupus | Books - Stacks | W 85 R813O 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |