In this Book
- Medical Thinking: A Historical Preface
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Lester S. King, M.D., focuses on those aspects of medicine that remain constant through the centuries--the problems that doctors always face and the critical judgment needed to solve them. According to Dr. King, modern technological advances are really new ways of answering old questions, while the basic modes of medical thinking have not changed.
Originally published in 1982.
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Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- p. ix
- BY WAY OF BACKGROUND
- SOME BASIC CONCEPTS
- 3 Signs and Symptoms
- pp. 73-89
- 4 Diagnosis
- pp. 90-104
- 5 Classification
- pp. 105-128
- DISEASE
- 6 Disease and Wealth
- pp. 131-145
- 7 The CIinical Entity and the Disease Entity
- pp. 146-164
- 8 When, Where, and What Is the Disease ?
- pp. 165-184
- CAUSE
- 9- The Causes of Disease: I
- pp. 187-203
- 10 The Causes of Disease: II
- pp. 204-224
- TREATMENT
- 11 Reflections on Blood-Letting
- pp. 227-244
- HOW DO YOU KNOW?
- I2 What is a Fact ?
- pp. 247-266
- I3 The Scientific Method, So-called
- pp. 267-293
- I4 "Scientific Medicine"
- pp. 294-310