Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence
Subtitle: conundrums in modern American medicine
By: Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz.
Contributors: Horwitz, Allan V.
Series: Critical issues in health and medicine; Critical issues in health and medicine
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813546711; 9780813546728
Subjects: Social medicine -- United States; Diseases and history -- United States; Diagnosis; Medicine -- trends -- United States; Diagnosis -- United States; Disease -- etiology -- United States; Therapeutics -- trends -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rhetoric and reality in modern American medicine; title: Medical rivalry and etiological speculation : the case of peptic ulcer; title: How theory makes bad practice : the case of tonsillectomy; title: How science tries to explain deadly diseases : coronary heart disease and cancer; title: Transforming amorphous stress into discrete disorders : the case of anxiety; title: Depression : creating consensus from diagnostic confusion; title: Post-traumatic stress disorder : the result of abnormal environments or abnormal individuals?.