Our Present Complaint - American Medicine, Then and Now : American Medicine, Then and Now

CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The History of Our Present Complaint 1 CHAPTER 2. The Tyranny of Diagnosis: Specific Entities and Individual Experience 13 CHAPTER 3. Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis 38 CHAPTER 4. Banishing Risk: Or, the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same 60 CHAPTER 5. Pathologies of Progress: The Idea of Civilization as Risk 77 CHAPTER 6. The New Enchantment: Genetics, Medicine, and Society 96 CHAPTER 7. Alternative to What? Complementary to Whom? On the Scientific Project in Medicine 113 CHAPTER 8. Holism in Twentieth-Century Medicine: Always in Opposition 139 CHAPTER 9. Mechanism and Morality: On Bioethics in Context 166 CHAPTER 10. Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy 185 Acknowledgments 207 Index 209