| Description |
246 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
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: mumps, measles, rubella (MMR), and -- Pertussis -- Conclusion: the themes revisited |
| Summary |
"Dr. Golem explores some of the mysteries and complexities of medicine while untangling the inherent conundrums of scientific research and highlighting its vagaries. Collins and Pinch examine the tension between the conflicting faces of medicine: medicine as science versus medicine as a source of succor; the interests of an individual versus the interests of a group; and the benefits in the short term versus success rates in the long term. Driven by the question of what to do in the face of the fallibility of medicine, Dr. Golem encourages a more inquisitive attitude toward the explanations and accounts offered by medical science."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medicine, Popular.
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Pinch, Trevor, 1952-
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| LC no. |
2005001621 |
| ISBN |
0226113663 cloth alkaline paper |
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