Dr. Golem : How to Think About Medicine

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII INTRODUCTION Medicine as Science and Medicine as Succor 1 1 The Hole in the Heart of Medicine: The Placebo Effect 18 2 Faking It for Real: Bogus Doctors 35 3 Tonsils: Diagnosing and Dealing with Uncertainty 61 4 Alternative Medicine: The Cases of Vitamin C and Cancer 84 5 Yuppie Flu, Fibromyalgia, and Other Contested Diseases 112 6 Defying Death: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) 132 7 The AIDS Activists 153 5 Vaccination and Parents' Rights: Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR), and Pertussis 180 CONCLUSION The Themes Revisited 205 NOTES 225 BIBLIOGRAPHY 235 INDEX 241