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Previous Volume 339:354-355 July 30, 1998 Number 5

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(Cambridge History of Medicine.) By Robert A. Aronowitz. 267 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. $29.95. ISBN 0-521-55234-6.

Dr. Aronowitz champions the holistic approach to the care of patients in the face of what he sees as the current science-oriented, reductionist approach to the practice of medicine. For example, he believes that in the past, the creation of new disease categories was the outcome of a largely "social process of negotiation" to which clinical and laboratory expertise contributed but in which they were not preeminent, as they are in the contemporary setting. Aronowitz suggests that by understanding the process by which disease categories are created, we are in a better position to assess all aspects of a disease, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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