Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence

Conundrums in Modern American Medicine
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ISBN: 978-0-8135-4672-8
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Reihe: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grob, Gerald N

Horwitz, Allan V

Über Autor(innen)

GERALD N. GROB is the Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University. He has written extensively, including The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change? (Rutgers University Press). ALLAN V. HORWITZ is a professor of sociology and dean for social and behavioral sciences at Rutgers University and the coauthor of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Ordinary Misery into Depressive Disorder.