Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence : conundrums in modern American medicine /
Grob, Gerald N., 1931-
Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence : conundrums in modern American medicine / Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz. - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2010. - xi, 253 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical issues in health and medicine . - Critical issues in health and medicine. .
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?.
9780813546711 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813546728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009008097
Social medicine--United States.
Diseases and history--United States.
Diagnosis.
RA418.3.U6 / G76 2010
362.1
WB 100 / G8728d 2010
Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence : conundrums in modern American medicine / Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz. - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2010. - xi, 253 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical issues in health and medicine . - Critical issues in health and medicine. .
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?.
9780813546711 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813546728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009008097
Social medicine--United States.
Diseases and history--United States.
Diagnosis.
RA418.3.U6 / G76 2010
362.1
WB 100 / G8728d 2010