Our present complaint : American medicine, then and now / Charles E. Rosenberg.
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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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.