Grob, Gerald N.,  1931- <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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?. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813546711 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813546728 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009008097 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social medicine--United States.<br/>Diseases and history--United States.<br/>Diagnosis.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA418.3.U6  / G76 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.1 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WB 100  / G8728d 2010