Overview
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Peter G. Herman
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Harvard Medical School, USA
Division of Thoracic Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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- Steven E. Seltzer, Jeffrey D. Goldstein, Peter G. Herman
Pages 1-26
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- James E. Pennington, Peter G. Herman
Pages 35-47
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- I. J. Isaacson, R. Fortunato
Pages 49-58
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- Gale S. Pasternack, Charles F. O’Cain
Pages 59-77
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- Jack L. Westcott, Solon Cole
Pages 79-109
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- Robert M. Steiner, Gary S. Mintz
Pages 201-227
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Back Matter
Pages 229-243
About this book
The purpose of this series of volumes is to present a comprehensive view of the complications that result from the use of acceptable diagnostic and therapeutic proce dures. Individual volumes will deal with iatrogenic complications involving (I) the alimentary system, (2) the urinary system, (3) the respiratory and cardiac systems, (4) the skeletal system and (5) the pediatric patient. The term iatrogenic, derived from two Greek words, means physician-induced. Originally, it applied only to psychiatric disorders generated in the patient by autosug gestion, based on misinterpretation of the doctor's attitude and comments. As clinically used, it now pertains to the inadvertent side-effects and complications created in the course of diagnosis and treatment. The classic categories of disease have included: (1) congenital and developmental, (2) traumatic, (3) infectious and inflammatory, (4) metabolic, (5) neoplastic, and (6) degenerative. To these must be added, however, iatrogenic disorders-a major, although generally unacknowledged, source of illness. While great advances in medical care in both diagnosis and therapy have been accom few decades, many are at times associated with certain side-effects plished in the past and risks which may result in distress equal to or greater than the basic condition. Iatrogenic complications, which may be referred to as "diseases of medical progress," have become a new dimension in the causation of human disease.
Editors and Affiliations
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Harvard Medical School, USA
Peter G. Herman
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Division of Thoracic Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA
Peter G. Herman
