Medical Knowledge: Doubt and Certainty by Clive Seale
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Medical Knowledge
Medical Knowledge
Summary
Drawing on an authorship which includes sociologists and historians, this book takes the reader through medical theory and practice in a variety of cultures and historical periods. It raises questions about the status and use of scientifically-based medical knowledge in western society today.
Medical Knowledge Summary
Medical Knowledge Reviews
"After a considerable period, we are at last presented with a introductory text which does not patronise the undergraduate student with over-simple explanations nor overwhelm with theory and specialist jargon. Seale and Pattison provide an interesting, well written and imaginatively illustrated book, abounding in historical drawings andphotographs. It is full of lively discussions and offers thoroughly useful information about some of the many forms of medical knowledge and medical practice." - A.N.Z.J.S.
Table of Contents
A journey through medical knowledge; health and healing in an age of science; an historical approach to medical knowledge; tuberculosis; blood; hysteria; medical knowledge and medical practice; medicalization and surveillance; doctor-patient interaction; appendix; answers to self-assessment questions.
Additional information
GOR002698157
9780335192519
0335192513
Medical Knowledge: Doubt and Certainty by Clive Seale
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Open University Press
1994-03-01
160
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