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Author:

Grob, Gerald N., 1931-

Title:

Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence : conundrums in modern American medicine / Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 253 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Social medicine--United States.
Diseases and history--United States.
Diagnosis.

Other Authors:

Horwitz, Allan V.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p.199-241) and index.

Contents:

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?

Series:

Critical issues in health and medicine.

ISBN:

0813546710 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813546711 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813546729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813546728 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)311060181

LCCN:

2009008097

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)