Dr. Golem [electronic resource] : how to think about medicine / Harry Collins & Trevor Pinch.

By: Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-Contributor(s): Pinch, T. J. (Trevor J.) | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005Description: xii, 246 pSubject(s): Medicine, Popular | Medicine -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 616/.001 LOC classification: RC81 | .C695 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Medicine as science and medicine as succor -- The hole in the heart of medicine: the placebo effect -- Faking it for real: bogus doctors -- Tonsils: diagnosing and dealing with uncertainty -- Alternative medicine: the cases of vitamin C and cancer -- Yuppie flu, fibromyalgia, and other contested diseases -- Defying death: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) -- The AIDS activists -- Vaccination and parents' rights: measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), and pertussis -- Conclusion: the themes revisited.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-239) and index.

Medicine as science and medicine as succor -- The hole in the heart of medicine: the placebo effect -- Faking it for real: bogus doctors -- Tonsils: diagnosing and dealing with uncertainty -- Alternative medicine: the cases of vitamin C and cancer -- Yuppie flu, fibromyalgia, and other contested diseases -- Defying death: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) -- The AIDS activists -- Vaccination and parents' rights: measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), and pertussis -- Conclusion: the themes revisited.

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