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