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Our present complaint [electronic resource] : American medicine, then and now / Charles E. Rosenberg.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rosenberg, Charles E.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medicine--United States--History.
Medicine.
Medical care--United States--History.
Medical care.
Patient Satisfaction--United States.
Delivery of Health Care--United States.
Health Policy--United States.
Physician's Role--United States.
Medical Subjects:
Patient Satisfaction--United States.
Delivery of Health Care--United States.
Health Policy--United States.
Physician's Role--United States.
Physical Description:
vi, 214 p. ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Language Note:
English
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.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-8018-8715-1

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