Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence : Conundrums in Modern American Medicine.
Title:
Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence : Conundrums in Modern American Medicine.
Author:
Grob, Gerald N.
ISBN:
9780813548128
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (271 pages)
Series:
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Rhetoric and Reality in Modern American Medicine -- Chapter 2: Medical Rivalry and Etiological Speculation: The Case of Peptic Ulcer -- Chapter 3: How Theory Makes Bad Practice: The Case of Tonsillectomy -- Chapter 4: How Science Tries to Explain Deadly Diseases: Coronary Heart Disease and Cancer -- Chapter 5: Transforming Amorphous Stress in Discrete Disorders: The Case of Anxiety -- Chapter 6: Depression: Creating Consensus from Diagnostic Confusion -- Chapter 7: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Result of Abnormal Environments or Abnormal Individuals? -- Epilogue: Where Do We Go From Here? -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Employing historical and contemporary data and case studies, the authors also examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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