Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence : conundrums in modern American medicine /

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In Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence, Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz employ historical and contemporary data and case studies, combining into one book a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions. They utilize case studies and examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, PTSD, anxiety, and d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Grob, Gerald N., 1931-2015 (Autor), Horwitz, Allan V. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Temas:
Social medicine > United States.
Diseases and history > United States.
Diagnosis.
Therapeutics > trends
Disease > etiology
Diagnosis
Medicine > trends
Maladies et histoire > États-Unis.
Diagnostics.
diagnosis.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > History.
Diseases and history
Social medicine
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rhetoric and reality in modern American medicine
  • Medical rivalry and etiological speculation : the case of peptic ulcer
  • How theory makes bad practice : the case of tonsillectomy
  • How science tries to explain deadly diseases : coronary heart disease and cancer
  • Transforming amorphous stress into discrete disorders : the case of anxiety
  • Depression : creating consensus from diagnostic confusion
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder : the result of abnormal environments or abnormal individuals?
  • Where do we go from here?

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