Our present complaint
Subtitle: history, health, and disease in America
By: Charles E. Rosenberg.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801887154; 9780801887161
Subjects: Medicine -- United States -- History; Medical care -- United States -- History; Patient Satisfaction -- United States; Delivery of Health Care -- United States; Health Policy -- United States; Physician's Role -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the history of our present complaint; title: Tyranny of diagnosis: sprecific entities and individual experience; title: Contested boundaries: psychiatry, disease, and diagnosis; title: Banishing risk: or the more things change, the more they remain the same; title: Pathologies of progress: the idea of civilization as risk; title: The new enchantment: genetics, medicine, and society; title: Alternative to what? complementary to whom?; title: Holism in twentieth-century medicine; title: Mechanism and morality: on bioethics in context; title: Anticipated consequences: historians, history, and health policy.