Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Disease

Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Disease
ISBN-10
142140513X
ISBN-13
9781421405131
Category
Medical
Pages
345
Language
English
Published
2003-09-15
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Barton Childs

Description

In Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Disease, Barton Childs demonstrates that knowledge of the ways both genes and environment contribute to disease provides a rational basis for medical thinking. This "genetic" medicine, he explains, should help the physician use the results of laboratory tests to perceive the uniqueness of the patient as well as that of the family and the cultural conditions in which the patient's condition arose. Childs thus provides a conceptual framework within which to teach and practice a humane medicine.

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