Dr. Golem : How to Think about Medicine.

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A creature of Jewish mythology, a golem is an animated being made by man from clay and water who knows neither his own strength nor the extent of his ignorance. Like science and technology, the subjects of Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch's previous volumes, medicine is also a golem, and this Dr....

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Collins, Harry
Autres auteurs: Pinch, Trevor
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Sujets:
Medicine.
Medical care.
Physician and patient.
Medicine, Popular.
Medicine
Physician-Patient Relations
Patient Care
Médecine.
Relations médecin-patient.
Médecine > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Soins médicaux.
medicines (material)
medicine (discipline)
Medical care
Medicine, Popular
Physician and patient
medicine, medical, sociology, science, scientific research, technology, tonsillectomies, placebo effect, randomized control trials, bogus doctors, cpr, vitamin c, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, aids, cures, treatment, vaccination, economics, social, vaccinations, vaccines, health, healthy, philosophy, healthcare, fibromyalgia, diseases, mumps, measles, rubella, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, diagnosis, uncertainty.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction Medicine asScience and Medicine as Succor; 1. The Hole in the Heart of Medicine: The Placebo Effect; 2. Faking It for Real: Bogus Doctors; 3. Tonsils Diagnosing and Dealing with Uncertainty; 4. Alternative Medicine: The Cases of Vitamin C and Cancer; 5. Yuppie Flu, Fibromyalgia, and Other Contested Diseases; 6. Defying Death: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; 7. The AIDS Activists; 8. Vaccination and Parents' Rights: Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR), and Pertussis; Conclusion: The Themes Revisited; Index.

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