Our present complaint [electronic resource] : American medicine, then and now / Charles E. Rosenberg.
Material type: TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007Description: vi, 214 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Medicine -- United States -- History | Medical care -- United States -- History | Patient Satisfaction -- United States | Delivery of Health Care -- United States | Health Policy -- United States | Physician's Role -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 610 LOC classification: R151 | .R67 2007Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the history of our present complaint -- Tyranny of diagnosis: sprecific entities and individual experience -- Contested boundaries: psychiatry, disease, and diagnosis -- Banishing risk: or the more things change, the more they remain the same -- Pathologies of progress: the idea of civilization as risk -- The new enchantment: genetics, medicine, and society -- Alternative to what? complementary to whom? -- Holism in twentieth-century medicine -- Mechanism and morality: on bioethics in context -- Anticipated consequences: historians, history, and health policy.
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