Our Present Complaint Download

Author: Charles E. Rosenberg
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B002MXX28A
Category: Medical

Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now

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Rosenberg, one of the world's most influential historians of medicine, presents a fascinating analysis of the current tensions in American medicine. Situating these tensions within their historical and social contexts, Rosenberg investigates the fundamental characteristics of medicine: how we think about disease, how the medical profession thinks about itself and its moral and intellectual responsibilities, and what prospective patients-all of us-expect from medicine and the medical profession. He explores the nature and definition of disease and how ideas of disease causation reflect social values and cultural negotiations. His analyses of alternative medicine and bioethics consider the historically specific ways in which we Get Our Present Complaint our bestseller medical books.

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