Title: Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine
Abstract: Foreword: renewing medicine's basic concepts / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Pt. I. Historical discussions of health, disease, and illness -- Ch. 1. From On the Natural Faculties II, VIII / Galen - - Ch. 2. Diseases of the soul / Maimonides -- Ch. 3. Prometheus's vulture: the renaissance fashioning of gout / Roy Porter and G.S. Rousseau -- Ch. 4. Report on the diseases and physical peculiarities of the negro race / Samuel A. Cartwright -- Ch. 5. The normal and the pathological-introduction to the problem / Georges Canguilhem -- Ch. 6. The myth of mental illness / Thomas S. Szasz -- Ch. 7. The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine / George L. Engel -- Ch. 8. When do symptoms become a disease? / Robert A. Aronowitz -- Pt. II. Characterizing health, disease, and illness -- Ch. 9. On the distinction between disease and illness / Christopher Boorse -- Ch. 10. Malady: a new treatment of disease / K. Danner Clouser, Charles M. Culver,and Bernard Gert -- Ch. 11. Health: a comprehensive concept / Roberto Mordacci and Richard Sobel -- Ch. 12. The distinction between mental and physical illness / R.E. Kendell -- Ch. 13. The unnaturalness of aging-give me reason to live! / Arthur L. Caplan -- Ch. 14. Diagnosing and defining disease / Winston Chiong -- Pt. III. Clinical applications of the concepts of health and disease: controversies/consensus -- Ch. 15. Ambiguous sex- or ambivalent medicine? / Alice Domurat Dreger -- Ch.16. The of hyperkinesis: notes on the medicalization of deviant behavior / Peter Conrad -- Ch. 17. Suffering and the social construction of illness: the delegitimation of illness experience in chronic fatigue syndrome / Norma C. Ware -- Ch. 18. The premenstrual syndrome: a brief history / John T.E. Richardson -- Ch. 19. The politics of menopause: the discovery of a deficiency disease / Frances B. McCrea -- Ch. 20. Aging, culture, and the framing of Alzheimer disease / Martha Holstein -- Pt. IV. Normalcy, genetic disease, and enhancement: the future of the concepts of health and disease -- Ch. 21. The medicalization of aesthetic surgery / Sander Gilman -- Ch. 22. The quest for medical normalcy-who needs it? / George C. Williams -- Ch. 23. The concept of genetic disease / David Magnus -- Ch. 24. Concepts of disease after the human genome project / Eric T. Juengst -- Ch. 25. From enhancing cognition in the intellectually intact / Peter J. Whitehouse, Eric T. Juengst, Maxwell Mehlman, and Thomas H. Murray -- Ch. 26. Treatment, enhancement, and the ethics of neurotherapeutics / Paul Root Wolpe -- Ch. 27. What's morally wrong with eugenics? / Arthur L. Caplan - - Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Permissions and credits -- Index
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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