Our present complaint : American medicine, then and now /

Historian of medicine Rosenberg presents an analysis of the current tensions in American medicine. Situating these tensions within their historical and social contexts, Rosenberg investigates the fundamental characteristics of medicine: how we think about disease, how the medical profession thinks a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenberg, Charles E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Medicine > United States > History.
Medical care > United States > History.
Patient satisfaction.
Medical care.
Medical policy.
Patient Satisfaction
Patient Care
Delivery of Health Care
Health Policy
Physician's Role
Patients > Satisfaction.
Prestation de soins.
Politique sanitaire.
Soins médicaux.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
Patient satisfaction
Medical policy
Medical care
Medicine
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the history of our present complaint
  • Tyranny of diagnosis: sprecific 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?
  • Holism in twentieth-century medicine
  • Mechanism and morality: on bioethics in context
  • Anticipated consequences: historians, history, and health policy.

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