Science and the Quiet Art: The Role of Medical Research in Health CareScience and the Quiet Art describes the experiments and the experimenters, shows how the tools of science have been applied to the study of disease through history to the present, and looks to the future. David Weatherall emphasizes the complex interplay in disease between nature, nurture, and aging and hence why, even with todays sophisticated methods, progress will be slow. Publishers Weekly describes the book as "a revealing and sobering appraisal of the successes, limitations, and promise of modern medicine." |
Contents
Preface 93 | 13 |
THE ROOTS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE | 23 |
Early Successes Breed New Problems | 55 |
HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY KNOW? | 89 |
How Much Has Been Achieved? | 125 |
THE ORIGINS OF OUR INTRACTABLE DISEASES | 153 |
A Closer Look at the Origins of | 181 |
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Science and the Quiet Art: The Role of Medical Research in Health Care D. J. Weatherall,Frs D J Weatherall No preview available - 1995 |
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