| Description |
vi, 214 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the history of our present complaint -- Tyranny of diagnosis: sprecific entities and individual experience -- Contested boundaries: psychiatry, disease, and diagnosis -- Banishing risk: or the more things change, the more they remain the same -- Pathologies of progress: the idea of civilization as risk -- The new enchantment: genetics, medicine, and society -- Alternative to what? complementary to whom? -- Holism in twentieth-century medicine -- Mechanism and morality: on bioethics in context -- Anticipated consequences: historians, history, and health policy. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Medicine -- United States -- History.
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Medical care -- United States -- History.
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Patient Satisfaction -- United States. |
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Delivery of Health Care -- United States. |
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Health Policy -- United States. |
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Physician's Role -- United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780801887154 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780801887161 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0801887151 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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080188716X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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