Dr. Golem [electronic resource] : how to think about medicine / Harry Collins & Trevor Pinch.
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
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Dr. Golem: How to Think About Medicine |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- 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.