Dr. Golem [electronic resource] : how to think about medicine / Harry Collins & Trevor Pinch.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.Description: xii, 246 p. ; 21 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 616/.001 22
- RC81 .C695 2005eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-239) and index.
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.
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