Grob Gerald N. Grob, Horwitz Allan V. Horwitz

Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence (eBook, PDF)

Conundrums in Modern American Medicine

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Produktbeschreibung

In Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence, Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz employ historical and contemporary data and case studies, combining into one book a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions. They utilize case studies and examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, PTSD, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813548128
• Artikelnr.: 72473624

Autorenporträt

Grob, Gerald N

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Rhetoric and Reality in Modern American Medicine
Chapter 2 Medical Rivalry and Etiological Speculation
Chapter 3 How Theory Makes Bad Practice
Chapter 4 How Science Tries to Explain Deadly Diseases
Chapter 5 Transforming Amorphous Stress into Discrete Disorders
Chapter 6 Creating Consensus From Diagnostic Confusion
Chapter 7 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Where Do We Go From Here?

Rezensionen

"Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence is an outstanding collection of highly informative and well-written chapters that aim to provide the reader with an understanding of the complexities of diagnosis and treatment in some important chronic diseases, from peptic ulcers to posttraumatic stress disorder. The authors bring together into one book a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions that have been discussed in different places, and do so in a format where they can be compared and their similarities and differences presented." - William Rothstein, University of Maryland, Baltimore County "Through a series of fascinating cases, Grob and Horwitz show how the diagnostic and treatment rhetoric of medicine and psychiatry often far exceeds the scientific evidence. A significant contribution to our understanding of medicalization." - Peter Conrad, Brandeis University "The case study structure of the book nicely reflects the authors' disciplinary interests and is justified by the burden of their argument - which turns on the complex and contingent nature of the historical and sociological processes through which diseases are defined and managed." - Charles Rosenberg, author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now"