An edition of Making sense of illness (1998)
Making sense of illness
science, society, and disease
By Robert A. Aronowitz
Publish Date
1998
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
eng
Pages
267
Description:
By juxtaposing the contested and controversial histories of a range of diseases, Aronowitz shows how values and interests have determined research programs, public health activities, clinical decisions and the patient's experience of illness.
subjects: Individual differences, Diseases, Causes and theories of causation, History of Medicine, 20th Cent, Philosophy, Social medicine, Disease, Sociology, Medicine, Nosology, Nosologie, Maladie, Valeurs sociales, Anthropologie médicale, Caractéristiques individuelles, Médecine, Wissenschaftsentwicklung, Médecine sociale, History of Medicine, Krankheitsbild, History, 20th Century, Sociologie, Histoire du 20ème siècle, Sociale aspecten, Gesellschaft, Ziekten, Étiologie, Oorzaken, Philosophie, Diseases, causes and theories of causation, Medicine, philosophy
Places: United States