Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the history of our present complaint -- Tyranny of diagnosis: sprecific entities and individual experience -- Contested boundaries: psychiatry, disease, and diagnosis -- Banishing risk: or the more things change, the more they remain the same -- Pathologies of progress: the idea of civilization as risk -- The new enchantment: genetics, medicine, and society -- Alternative to what? complementary to whom? -- Holism in twentieth-century medicine -- Mechanism and morality: on bioethics in context -- Anticipated consequences: historians, history, and health policy.

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