Medical Thinking : : A Historical Preface / / Lester Snow King.
Lester S. King, M.D., focuses on those aspects of medicine that remain constant through the centuries--the problems that doctors always face and the critical judgment needed to solve them. According to Dr. King, modern technological advances are really new ways of answering old questions, while the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- BY WAY OF BACKGROUND
- Chapter 1. Persistent Problems of Medicine
- Chapter 2. Consumption: The Story of a Disease
- SOME BASIC CONCEPTS
- Chapter 3. Signs and Symptoms
- Chapter 4. Diagnosis
- Chapter 5. Classification
- DISEASE
- Chapter 6. Disease and Health
- Chapter 7. The Clinical Entity and the Disease Entity
- Chapter 8. When, Where, and What Is the Disease?
- CAUSE
- Chapter 9. The Causes of Disease: I
- Chapter 10. The Causes of Disease: II
- TREATMENT
- Chapter 11. Reflections on Blood-Letting
- HOW DO YOU KNOW?
- Chapter 12. What Is a Fact?
- Chapter 13. The Scientific Method, So-called
- Chapter 14. "Scientific Medicine"
- EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- INDEX