Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence : conundrums in modern American medicine /
Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz.
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
- 253 p.
- Critical issues in health and medicine .
Rhetoric and reality in modern American medicine -- Medical rivalry and etiological speculation : the case of peptic ulcer -- How theory makes bad practice : the case of tonsillectomy -- How science tries to explain deadly diseases : coronary heart disease and cancer -- Transforming amorphous stress into discrete disorders : the case of anxiety -- Depression : creating consensus from diagnostic confusion -- Post-traumatic stress disorder : the result of abnormal environments or abnormal individuals?. HKBU library
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