Grob, Gerald N.,

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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Social medicine--United States.
Diseases and history--United States.
Diagnosis.
Medicine--trends--United States.
Diagnosis--United States.
Disease--etiology--United States.
Therapeutics--trends--United States.

RA418 / G873 D 2010