Beyond Boundaries of Biomedicine : : Pragmatic Perspectives on Health and Disease / / edited by Wim J. van der Steen, Vincent K.Y. Ho, Ferry J. Karmelk.
Cultural forces shape much of medicine including psychiatry, and medicine shapes much of our culture. Medicine provides us with beneficial treatments of disease, but it also causes harm, increasingly so in the form of overmedication enhanced by the pharmaceutical industry. The book explores boundari...
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| Superior document: | At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 4 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Appendix 1 to Chapter 1. Summary of the Book
- Appendix 2 to Chapter 1. Genetics and Philosophy of Biology
- Chapter 2. The Spectrum of Diseases
- Chapter 3. Diseases, Causes, and Treatments: New Vistas
- Chapter 4. Drugs, Psychotherapies, and Placebos
- Chapter 5. Migraine: A Plethora of Disorders
- Chapter 6. Delusions of Psychiatry
- Chapter 7. Fatty Acids, Health, and Disease
- Chapter 8. Drugs Versus Diets
- Chapter 9. Qualifying Quantitative Methods
- Chapter 10. Thought for Food in Psychiatry
- Chapter 11. Conventional Medicine and CAM
- Chapter 12. Medicine and Religion
- Afterthoughts
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index.