Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Epochal transitions? Biomedicine and the transformation of socionature
- Part II Laboratories and clinics: the material cultures of biomedicine
- 4 Trustworthy knowledge and desperate patients: clinical tests for new drugs from cancer to AIDS
- 5 Pathology and the clinic: an ethnographic presentation of two atheroscleroses
- 6 “Real compared to what?”: Diagnosing leukemias and lymphomas
- 7 History, hystery and psychiatric styles of reasoning
- Part III Technologies and bodies: the extended networks of biomedicine
- Index
7 - History, hystery and psychiatric styles of reasoning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Epochal transitions? Biomedicine and the transformation of socionature
- Part II Laboratories and clinics: the material cultures of biomedicine
- 4 Trustworthy knowledge and desperate patients: clinical tests for new drugs from cancer to AIDS
- 5 Pathology and the clinic: an ethnographic presentation of two atheroscleroses
- 6 “Real compared to what?”: Diagnosing leukemias and lymphomas
- 7 History, hystery and psychiatric styles of reasoning
- Part III Technologies and bodies: the extended networks of biomedicine
- Index
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- Living and Working with the New Medical TechnologiesIntersections of Inquiry, pp. 135 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000
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