Making Sense of Illness
Subtitle: Science, Society, and Disease
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521558259
Subjects: History of medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Health Care Delivery; History; Medical / History; Social medicine--United States
First sentence: Every practicing clinician confronts a recurrent dilemma in the form of patients who suffer from vague and poorly defined ailments; if they can be diagnosed as suffering from disease, it is typically an entity with no agreed-upon etiology, or pathophysiological basis.