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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.

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  • Title Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now
  • Author Charles E. Rosenberg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication date 2007-11-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780801887161 / 080188716X
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.56 x 0.57 in (22.86 x 16.66 x 1.45 cm)
  • Age range 18 to 22 years
  • Grade levels 13 - 17
  • Category Medical / Nursing
  • Library of Congress subjects Medical care - United States - History, Health Policy - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007013960
  • Dewey Decimal Code 610

About the author

Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System; and No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought.

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