Beyond Boundaries of Biomedicine

Pragmatic Perspectives on Health and Disease
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-420-0816-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

Cultural forces shape much of medicine including psychiatry, and medicine shapes much of our culture. Medicine provides us with beneficial treatments of disease, but it also causes harm, increasingly so in the form of overmedication enhanced by the pharmaceutical industry. The book explores boundaries of medicine and psychiatry in a cultural setting by building bridges between unconnected literatures. Boundaries have to be redrawn since effects of the environment, biological, social and political, on health and disease are undervalued. Potential beneficial effects of diet therapies are a recurrent theme throughout the text, with particular emphasis on omega-3 fatty acids. Deficiencies of these acids in common diets may contribute to many chronic diseases and psychiatric disorders. The book uncovers limitations of evidence-based medicine, which fosters a restrictive view of health and disease. Case studies include: the biology of migraine; limitations of biological psychiatry; conventional versus alternative medicine; science, religion and near-death experiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Steen, Wim J. van der

Ho, Vincent K.Y.

Karmelk, Ferry J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Appendix 1 to Chapter 1. Summary of the Book
Appendix 2 to Chapter 1. Genetics and Philosophy of Biology
Chapter 2. The Spectrum of Diseases
Chapter 3. Diseases, Causes, and Treatments: New Vistas
Chapter 4. Drugs, Psychotherapies, and Placebos
Chapter 5. Migraine: A Plethora of Disorders
Chapter 6. Delusions of Psychiatry
Chapter 7. Fatty Acids, Health, and Disease
Chapter 8. Drugs Versus Diets
Chapter 9. Qualifying Quantitative Methods
Chapter 10. Thought for Food in Psychiatry
Chapter 11. Conventional Medicine and CAM
Chapter 12. Medicine and Religion
Afterthoughts
References
Author Index
Subject Index