Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence : conundrums in modern American medicine /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Grob, Gerald N., 1931-2015
Other Authors:	Horwitz, Allan V.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2010]
Series:	Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subjects:	Therapeutics > trends > United States. Disease > etiology > United States. Diagnosis > United States. Medicine > trends > United States. Diagnosis. Diseases and history > United States. Social medicine > United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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?.