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Dr. Golem : how to think about medicine / Harry Collins & Trevor Pinch.
LIBRA RC81 .C695 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Popular.
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Sociology, Medical.
- Community Participation.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Sociology, Medical.
- Community Participation.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 246 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Driven by the question of what to do in the face of the fallibility of medicine, Dr. Golem encourages a more inquisitive attitude about the explanations and accounts offered by medical science.
- Contents:
- Medicine as science and medicine as succor
- The hole in the heart of medicine: the placebo effect
- Faking it for real: bogus doctors
- Tonsils: diagnosing and dealing with uncertainty
- Alternative medicine: the cases of vitamin C and cancer
- Yuppie flu, fibromyalgia, and other contested diseases
- Defying death: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- The AIDS activists
- Vaccination and parents' rights: measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), and pertussis
- Conclusion: the themes revisited.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226113663
- OCLC:
- 57514726
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