Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System; and No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought.

Cogently written and well documented, the book will benefit medical practitioners, and will be especially useful to those who make medical policy. Highly recommended. Choice 2008 This collection of essays, drawing on Rosenberg's half-century career as one of our preeminent historians of medicine, will be well appreciated by fellow historians and their students, but it ought to be required reading for health care providers, payers, policy makers, and patients. -- Elizabeth Siegel Watkins Journal of American History 2008 Our Present Complaint... is a timely book. It examines important concepts and history that people need to be aware of and think through if they seek to understand and address the many problems with the American medical system. -- Sharon A. Falkenheimer Themelios 2008 [Rosenberg] reminds us that the problems addressed by disciplines such as bioethics and interdisiplinary communities such as that of health policy are inevitably situated and configured by a broader context to which ethicists and policy makers would do well to pay attention. -- Thomas S. Huddle, M.D., Ph.D. Journal of the History of Medicine 2009

• 1. Introduction: The History of Our Present Complaint2. The Tyranny of Diagnosis: Specific Entities and Individual Experience3. Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis4. Banishing Risk: Or, the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same5. Pathologies of Progress: The Idea of Civilization as Risk6. The New Enchantment: Genetics, Medicine, and Society7. Alternative to What? Complementary to Whom? On the Scientific Project in Medicine8. Holism in Twentieth-Century Medicine: Always in Opposition9. Mechanism and Morality: On Bioethics in Context10. Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health PolicyAcknowledgmentsIndex

Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System; and No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought.

Cogently written and well documented, the book will benefit medical practitioners, and will be especially useful to those who make medical policy. Highly recommended. Choice 2008 This collection of essays, drawing on Rosenberg's half-century career as one of our preeminent historians of medicine, will be well appreciated by fellow historians and their students, but it ought to be required reading for health care providers, payers, policy makers, and patients. -- Elizabeth Siegel Watkins Journal of American History 2008 Our Present Complaint... is a timely book. It examines important concepts and history that people need to be aware of and think through if they seek to understand and address the many problems with the American medical system. -- Sharon A. Falkenheimer Themelios 2008 [Rosenberg] reminds us that the problems addressed by disciplines such as bioethics and interdisiplinary communities such as that of health policy are inevitably situated and configured by a broader context to which ethicists and policy makers would do well to pay attention. -- Thomas S. Huddle, M.D., Ph.D. Journal of the History of Medicine 2009

• 1. Introduction: The History of Our Present Complaint2. The Tyranny of Diagnosis: Specific Entities and Individual Experience3. Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis4. Banishing Risk: Or, the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same5. Pathologies of Progress: The Idea of Civilization as Risk6. The New Enchantment: Genetics, Medicine, and Society7. Alternative to What? Complementary to Whom? On the Scientific Project in Medicine8. Holism in Twentieth-Century Medicine: Always in Opposition9. Mechanism and Morality: On Bioethics in Context10. Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health PolicyAcknowledgmentsIndex

Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System; and No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought.

Cogently written and well documented, the book will benefit medical practitioners, and will be especially useful to those who make medical policy. Highly recommended. Choice 2008 This collection of essays, drawing on Rosenberg's half-century career as one of our preeminent historians of medicine, will be well appreciated by fellow historians and their students, but it ought to be required reading for health care providers, payers, policy makers, and patients. -- Elizabeth Siegel Watkins Journal of American History 2008 Our Present Complaint... is a timely book. It examines important concepts and history that people need to be aware of and think through if they seek to understand and address the many problems with the American medical system. -- Sharon A. Falkenheimer Themelios 2008 [Rosenberg] reminds us that the problems addressed by disciplines such as bioethics and interdisiplinary communities such as that of health policy are inevitably situated and configured by a broader context to which ethicists and policy makers would do well to pay attention. -- Thomas S. Huddle, M.D., Ph.D. Journal of the History of Medicine 2009

• 1. Introduction: The History of Our Present Complaint2. The Tyranny of Diagnosis: Specific Entities and Individual Experience3. Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis4. Banishing Risk: Or, the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same5. Pathologies of Progress: The Idea of Civilization as Risk6. The New Enchantment: Genetics, Medicine, and Society7. Alternative to What? Complementary to Whom? On the Scientific Project in Medicine8. Holism in Twentieth-Century Medicine: Always in Opposition9. Mechanism and Morality: On Bioethics in Context10. Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health PolicyAcknowledgmentsIndex