Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

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. Rhetoric and reality in modern American medicine Medical rivalry and etiological speculation : the case of peptic ulcer How theory makes bad practice : the case of tonsillectomy How science tries to explain deadly diseases : coronary heart disease and cancer Transforming amorphous stress into discrete disorders : the case of anxiety Depression : creating consensus from diagnostic confusion Post-traumatic stress disorder : the result of abnormal environments or abnormal individuals?. In Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence, Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz employ historical and contemporary data and case studies, combining into one book a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions. They utilize case studies and examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, PTSD, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment Employing historical and contemporary data, and case studies, Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence also examines tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identifies differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment Employing historical and contemporary data and case studies, this title examines tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment.