Overview
- Editors:
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E. George Kassner
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State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxiv
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- William H. McAlister, Marilyn J. Siegel
Pages 1-37
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- J. A. Gordon Culham, Robert M. Freedom
Pages 39-60
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- Gwendolyn C. Hotson, Sherman C. Stein
Pages 61-79
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- E. George Kassner, Jack O. Haller
Pages 81-123
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- E. George Kassner, Jack O. Haller
Pages 125-190
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- Ambadas Pathak, Richard M. Bernstein, E. George Kassner
Pages 275-338
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- Andreas Athanasiou, John C. Leonidas, John E. Munzenrider
Pages 339-379
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Back Matter
Pages 381-401
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 thera peutic procedures. Individual volumes will deal with iatrogenic complications involving (1) 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-in duced. Originally, it applied only to psychiatric disorders generated in the patient by autosuggestion, 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 developmen tal, (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 accomplished in the past few decades, many are at times associated with certain side-effects and risks which may result in distress equal to or greater than the basic condi tion. 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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State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA
E. George Kassner
