Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence : conundrums in modern American medicine
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Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence : conundrums in modern American medicine
（Critical issues in health and medicine）
Rutgers University Press, c2010
- : pbk
- : hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hardcover ISBN 9780813546711
Description
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.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813546728
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In Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence, Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz employ historical and contemporary data and case studies, combining into one book a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions. They utilize case studies and examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, PTSD, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Rhetoric and Reality in Modern American Medicine
Chapter 2 Medical Rivalry and Etiological Speculation
Chapter 3 How Theory Makes Bad Practice
Chapter 4 How Science Tries to Explain Deadly Diseases
Chapter 5 Transforming Amorphous Stress into Discrete Disorders
Chapter 6 Creating Consensus From Diagnostic Confusion
Chapter 7 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Where Do We Go From Here?
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