
The Limits of Medicine by Edward S Golub
Edward Golub shows in this text that major advances in medicine are caused by changes in the way scientists describe disease. Bleeding, sweating and other treatments we consider barbaric were standard traetments for centuries because they conformed to a conception of disease shared by patients and doctors. Scientific breakthroughs in the understanding of disease in the 19th-century transformed treatment and the goals of medicine. Golub argues that the ongoing revolution in molecular genetics has opened the door to the "biology of complexity", again transforming the view of disease.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780226302072 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226302075 |
| Title | The Limits of Medicine |
| Author | Edward S Golub |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1997-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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