Medical Thinking: A Historical Preface by Lester Snow King, ISBN-13: 978-0691612607

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• Publisher: ? Princeton University Press (July 14, 2014)
• Language: ? English
• 348 pages
• ISBN-10: ? 0691612609
• ISBN-13: ? 978-0691612607

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:

PREFACE V
BY WAY OF BACKGROUND
Chapter 1 Persistent Problems of Medicine 5
Chapter 2 Consumption: The Story of a Disease 16
SOME BASIC CONCEPTS
Chapter 3 Signs and Symptoms 73
Chapter 4 Diagnosis 90
Chapter 5 Classification 105
DISEASE
Chapter 6 Disease and Health 131
Chapter 7 The Clinical Entity and the Disease Entity 146
Chapter 8 When, Where, and What Is the Disease? 165
CAUSE
Chapter 9 The Causes of Disease: I 187
Chapter 10 The Causes of Disease: II 204
TREATMENT
Chapter 11 Reflections on Blood-Letting 227
HOW DO YOU KNOW?
Chapter 12 What Is a Fact? 247
Chapter 13 The Scientific Method, So-called 267
Chapter 14 “Scientific Medicine” 294
EPILOGUE 311
NOTES 319
INDEX 331

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