Making sense of illness : science, society, and disease /
Science, society, and disease
Robert A. Aronowitz.
- xii, 267 pages ; 24 cm.
- Cambridge history of medicine .
- Cambridge history of medicine. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The rise and fall of the psychosomatic hypothesis in ulcerative colitis -- From myalgic encephalitis to yuppie flu: a history of chronic fatigue syndrome -- Lyme disease: the social construction of a new disease and its social consequences -- From the patient's angina pectoris to the cardiologist's coronary heart disease -- The social construction of coronary heart disease risk factors -- The rise and fall of the type A hypothesis -- Conclusion. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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Social medicine--United States Diseases--Causes and theories of causation Individual differences Nosology Medicine--Philosophy Sociology. History, 20th Century Disease