Dr. Golem : how to think about medicine / Harry Collins & Trevor Pinch.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2005.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 246 p. : ill., ritr. ; 21 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface and acknowledgments. Introduction: Medicine as science and medicine as succor. 1. The hole in the heart of medicine: the placebo effect 2. Faking it for real: bogus doctors 3. Tonsils: diagnosing and dealing with uncertainty 4. Alternative medicine: the cases of vitamin C and cancer 5. Yuppie flu, fibromyalgia and other contested diseases 6. Defying death: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) 7. The AIDS activists 8. Vaccination and parents' rights: measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and pertussis. Conclusion: The themes revisited. Notes. Bibliography. Index
