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Our present complaint : American medicine, then and now

Title
Our present complaint : American medicine, then and now / Charles E. Rosenberg.
Author
Rosenberg, Charles E.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
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  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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Description
vi, 214 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Medicine > United States > History
  • Medical care > United States > History
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Health Policy
  • Physician's Role
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction: The History of Our Present Complaint -- Ch. 2. The Tyranny of Diagnosis: Specific Entities and Individual Experience -- Ch. 3. Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis -- Ch. 4. Banishing Risk: Or, the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same -- Ch. 5. Pathologies of Progress: The Idea of Civilization as Risk -- Ch. 6. The New Enchantment: Genetics, Medicine, and Society -- Ch. 7. Alternative to What? Complementary to Whom? On the Scientific Project in Medicine -- Ch. 8. Holism in Twentieth-Century Medicine: Always in Opposition -- Ch. 9. Mechanism and Morality: On Bioethics in Context -- Ch. 10. Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy.
ISBN
  • 9780801887154 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780801887161 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0801887151 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 080188716X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007013960
OCLC
  • ocn122499937
  • 122499937
  • SCSB-5381929
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries