Making sense of illness
Subtitle: science, society, and disease
By: Robert A. Aronowitz.
Series: Cambridge history of medicine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Social medicine -- United States.; Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation.; Individual differences.; Nosology.; Medicine -- Philosophy.; History of Medicine, 20th Cent. -- United States.; Disease.; Sociology.
Description: By juxtaposing the contested and controversial histories of a range of diseases, Aronowitz shows how values and interests have determined research programs, public health activities, clinical decisions and the patient's experience of illness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.