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Diagnosis,
Therapy, and Evidence
Price: $26.95
Subtitle: Conundrums in Modern
American Medicine
Author:
Gerald N. Grob and
Allan V. Horwitz
Subject: History
of Medicine, Health and Medicine
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4672-8
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4671-1
Pages:
256 pages
Publication Date: November 2009
Series: Critical
Issues in Health and Medicine
Praise for Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence
"The case study structure
of the book nicely reflects the authors' disciplinary interests and is
justified by the burden of their argument--which turns on the complex
and contingent nature of the historical and sociological processes
through which diseases are defined and managed."—Charles
Rosenberg, author of Our Present
Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now
"Through a series of fascinating
cases, Grob and Horwitz show how the diagnostic and treatment rhetoric
of medicine and psychiatry often far exceeds the scientific evidence. A
significant contribution to our understanding of medicalization."—Peter
Conrad, Brandeis University, author of The Medicalization of Society: On the
Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders
""This book is an outstanding
collection of highly informative and well-written chapters that aim to
provide the reader with an understanding of the complexities of
diagnosis and treatment in some important chronic diseases, from peptic
ulcers to post-traumatic stress disorder. The authors bring together
into one book a variety of medical conditions that have been discussed
in different places, allowing a rich comparison of their similarities
and differences."—William Rothstein, professor of sociology, University
of Maryland, Baltimore County
"Their
book deserves to be in the libraries of medical schools and schools of
public
health. Recommended."—Choice
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.
About the Author:
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.
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