Our present complaint American medicine, then and now /

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Main Author: Rosenberg, Charles E.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.