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Making sense of illness : science, society, and disease / Robert A. Aronowitz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge history of medicinePublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1998Description: xii, 267 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521552346
  • 9780521552349
Other title:
  • Science, society, and disease
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610
LOC classification:
  • RA418.3.U6 A76 1998
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. The rise and fall of the psychosomatic hypothesis in ulcerative colitis -- 3. From myalgic encephalitis to yuppie flu: a history of chronic fatigue syndrome -- 4. Lyme disease: the social construction of a new disease and its social consequences -- 5. From the patient's angina pectoris to the cardiologist's coronary heart disease -- 6. The social construction of coronary heart disease risk factors -- 7. The rise and fall of the type A hypothesis -- 8. Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The rise and fall of the psychosomatic hypothesis in ulcerative colitis -- 3. From myalgic encephalitis to yuppie flu: a history of chronic fatigue syndrome -- 4. Lyme disease: the social construction of a new disease and its social consequences -- 5. From the patient's angina pectoris to the cardiologist's coronary heart disease -- 6. The social construction of coronary heart disease risk factors -- 7. The rise and fall of the type A hypothesis -- 8. Conclusion.

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