Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now
Author:   Charles E. Rosenberg (Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard University)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
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9780801887161


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   20 February 2008
Recommended Age:   From 13
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Author:   Charles E. Rosenberg (Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard University)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780801887161


ISBN 10:   080188716
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   20 February 2008
Recommended Age:   From 13
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Introduction: The History of Our Present Complaint 2. The Tyranny of Diagnosis: Specific Entities and Individual Experience 3. Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis 4. Banishing Risk: Or, the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same 5. Pathologies of Progress: The Idea of Civilization as Risk 6. The New Enchantment: Genetics, Medicine, and Society 7. Alternative to What? Complementary to Whom? On the Scientific Project in Medicine 8. Holism in Twentieth-Century Medicine: Always in Opposition 9. Mechanism and Morality: On Bioethics in Context 10. Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy Acknowledgments Index

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Strikingly original. Rosenberg gains fresh insights by placing important, timely problems in a larger cultural and social context. A major contribution to the field of medical history. - Alan Derickson, author of Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America


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Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System; and No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought.

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