An edition of Our Present Complaint (2007)

Our present complaint

history, health, and disease in America

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An edition of Our Present Complaint (2007)

Our present complaint

history, health, and disease in America

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Cover of: Our Present Complaint
Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now
November 14, 2007, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback in English - 1 edition
Cover of: Our present complaint
Our present complaint: history, health, and disease in America
2007, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Cover of: Our Present Complaint
Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now
November 16, 2007, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Baltimore

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
610
Library of Congress
R151 .R67 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17884897M
Internet Archive
ourpresentcompla00rose
ISBN 10
0801887151, 080188716X
ISBN 13
9780801887154, 9780801887161
LCCN
2007013960
Library Thing
4140507
Goodreads
2246217
6014944

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May 22, 2020 Edited by CoverBot Added new cover
April 6, 2014 Edited by ImportBot Added IA ID.
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April 24, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs.
October 6, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from Library of Congress MARC record