You might also like

More about Our Present Complaint

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 72 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Charles E. Rosenberg, one of the world's most influential historians of medicine, presents a fascinating analysis of the current tensions in American medicine. Situating these tensions within their historical and social contexts, Rosenberg investigates the fundamental characteristics of medicine: how we think about disease, how the medical profession thinks about itself and its moral and intellectual responsibilities, and what prospective patients-all of us-expect from medicine and the medical profession. He explores the nature and definition of disease and how ideas of disease causation reflect social values and cultural negotiations. His analyses of alternative medicine and bioethics consider the historically specific ways in which we define and seek to control what is appropriately medical. At a time when clinical care and biomedical research generate as much angst as they offer cures, this volume provides valuable insight into how the practice of medicine has evolved, where it is going, and how lessons from history can improve its prognosis.

Book details

Book category Books in English Medicine Medicine: general issues

• Full title: Our Present Complaint
• Subtitle: American Medicine, Then and Now
• Author: Charles E. Rosenberg
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780801887161
• ISBN: 080188716X
• ID: 04709920
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 326 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 153 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 2007

Trending among others

---

---

---