Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence : Conundrums in Modern American Medicine /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Grob, Gerald N., 1931-
Other Authors: Horwitz, Allan V.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Therapeutics > trends > United States.
Disease > etiology > United States.
Diagnosis > United States.
Medicine > trends > United States.
Diagnosis.
Diseases and history > United States.
Social medicine > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?.

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