Our Present Complaint - American Medicine, Then and Now

Introduction: The History of Our Present Complaint 1(12) The Tyranny of Diagnosis: Specific Entities and Individual Experience 13(25) Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis 38(22) Banishing Risk: Or, the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same 60(17) Pathologies of Progress: The Idea of Civilization as Risk 77(19) The New Enchantment: Genetics, Medicine, and Society 96(17) Alternative to What? Complementary to Whom? On the Scientific Project in Medicine 113(26) Holism in Twentieth-Century Medicine: Always in Opposition 139(27) Mechanism and Morality: On Bioethics in Context 166(19) Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy 185(22) Acknowledgments 207(2) Index 209