New Book Analyzes Current Tensions in American Medicine

Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now, a new book by noted medical historian Charles E. Rosenberg, is now available in the library. Rosenberg examines fundamental questions confronting the medical community: how it thinks about itself and its moral and intellectual responsibilities and what the public's expectations are. Providing the historical background to the current situation, Rosenberg then goes to to address current issues, including those surrounding genetics, psychiatry, and complementary medicine.