Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
Language: English
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1998
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A lovely FIRST EDITION copy! Fine in hardcover (square, tight, and unmarked) in a near fine dust jacket -- crisp, bright, and tight -- with just a tiny closed tear on the INSIDE of the front jacket flap at the top. Stated First Edition ("First published 1998"). Suitable condition for adding to a library collection. (Cambridge History of Science Series.Ships from NC. All books are sealed in recycled plastic, packaged securely, and shipped promptly with tracking information. (E-8.).
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- Title
- Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
- Author
- Robert A. Aronowitz
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0521552346
- ISBN 13
- 9780521552349
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Health/Nutrition/Medicine, History, Mathematics, Science, & Technology
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Review
"This book will stimulate responses from both the ontologic and holistic camps...It should be especially appreciated by the new breed of academics incessantly involved in designing and redesigning the medical school curriculum." The New England Journal of Medicine
"The author of this very sensible book is no ideologue; he makes us think hard about interactions among social and biological determinants of disease meaning....Making Sense of Illness succeeds as both a medical monograph and a book for the lay reader because it speaks to such deep matters of health and health care delivery, and accomplishes its task in relatively jargon-free language. This is a book for the thinking reader." Harold J. Morowitz, The Washington Post
"Robert A. Aronowitz has written a challenging and most interesting short book perhaps best characterized as medical historicosociologic in scope...I hope that Making Sense of Illness will be widely read and discussed within our profession." Joseph S. Alpert, MD, JAMA
"...a doctor's effort to do justice...bringing us to our (clinical senses) so that we can appreciate the limits as well as the extent of our new knowledge." Robert Coles, The Lancet
"The great virtue of this book is the author's esential even handedness. He is an astute clinician...alert to the way new knowledge can becloud as well as inform..." Robert Coloe, The Lancet
"The author wants us to examine closely the way our thinking about diseases in the abstract effects our relationship with our patients...those broader social and cultural matters as they bear down on the daily encounters that take place in medical offices across the world, and especially among the priveledged, health-conscious bourgeoisie of the western world." Robert Coloe, The Lancet
"...in this century, we have acquired an astonishing body of knowledge about the mechanisms of various diseases, and this book in no way underestimates or undervalues that knowledge." Robert Coles, The Lancet
"...an insightful book focused on 20th-century medical developments and based on his own clinical experiences with chronic disease. ...should be read by everybody who cares for the future of medicine." Inquirer
"His argmumentation is lucid, temperate, and scholarly. His intention is to open his readers' eyes to the historical contingencies and unexamined assumptions that underpin medical knowledge. His case studies wil be substantively interesting to psychiatric audiences, but it would be a mistake to ignore the book's larger imlications for psychiatry. Aronowitz's splendid book points us in this direction." Allan Young, Ph.D., The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
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