Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence : : Conundrums in Modern American Medicine / / Allan V. Horwitz, Gerald N. Grob.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Grob, Gerald N.,; Horwitz, Allan V.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Chapter 1. Rhetoric and Reality in Modern American Medicine --; Chapter 2. Medical Rivalry and Etiological Speculation: The Case of Peptic Ulcer --; Chapter 3. How Theory Makes Bad Practice: The Case of Tonsillectomy --; Chapter 4. How Science Tries to Explain Deadly Diseases: Coronary Heart Disease and Cancer --; Chapter 5. Transforming Amorphous Stress into Discrete Disorders: The Case of Anxiety --; Chapter 6. Depression: Creating Consensus from Diagnostic Confusion --; Chapter 7. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Result of Abnormal Environments or Abnormal Individuals? --; Epilogue. Where Do We Go from Here? --; Notes --; Index --; About the Authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780813548128; 9783110688610
• DOI: 10.36019/9780813548128
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Allan V. Horwitz, Gerald N. Grob.

Employing historical and contemporary data and case studies, the authors also examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment.