Dr. Golem : how to think about medicine /
A creature of Jewish mythology, a golem is an animated being made by man from clay and water who knows neither his own strength nor the extent of his ignorance. Like science and technology, the subjects of Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch's previous volumes, medicine is also a golem, and this Dr....
| Основен автор: | Collins, H. M. 1943- |
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| Други автори: | Pinch, Trevor, 1952- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
℗♭2005.
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Print version::
Dr. Golem. |
Съдържание:
- Medicine as science and medicine as succor
- The hole in the heart of medicine: the placebo effect
- Faking it for real: bogus doctors
- Tonsils: diagnosing and dealing with uncertainty
- Alternative medicine: the cases of vitamin C and cancer
- Yuppie flu, fibromyalgia, and other contested diseases
- Defying death: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- The AIDS activists
- Vaccination and parents' rights: measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), and pertussis
- Conclusion: the themes revisited.