Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence conundrums in modern American medicine
Grob, Gerald N., 1931-
Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence conundrums in modern American medicine [electronic resource] : - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 253 p.) - Critical issues in health and medicine . - Critical issues in health and medicine. .
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rhetoric and reality in modern American medicine -- Medical rivalry and etiological speculation : the case of peptic ulcer -- How theory makes bad practice : the case of tonsillectomy -- How science tries to explain deadly diseases : coronary heart disease and cancer -- Transforming amorphous stress into discrete disorders : the case of anxiety -- Depression : creating consensus from diagnostic confusion -- Post-traumatic stress disorder : the result of abnormal environments or abnormal individuals? -- Where do we go from here?
9780813548128 (electronic bk.) 0813548128 (electronic bk.)
Social medicine--United States.
Diseases and history--United States.
Diagnosis.
Medicine--trends--United States.
Diagnosis--United States.
Disease--etiology--United States.
Therapeutics--trends--United States.
2010 A-390 WB 100 / G8728d 2010
Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence conundrums in modern American medicine [electronic resource] : - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 253 p.) - Critical issues in health and medicine . - Critical issues in health and medicine. .
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rhetoric and reality in modern American medicine -- Medical rivalry and etiological speculation : the case of peptic ulcer -- How theory makes bad practice : the case of tonsillectomy -- How science tries to explain deadly diseases : coronary heart disease and cancer -- Transforming amorphous stress into discrete disorders : the case of anxiety -- Depression : creating consensus from diagnostic confusion -- Post-traumatic stress disorder : the result of abnormal environments or abnormal individuals? -- Where do we go from here?
9780813548128 (electronic bk.) 0813548128 (electronic bk.)
Social medicine--United States.
Diseases and history--United States.
Diagnosis.
Medicine--trends--United States.
Diagnosis--United States.
Disease--etiology--United States.
Therapeutics--trends--United States.
2010 A-390 WB 100 / G8728d 2010