Dr. Golem: How to Think about Medicine

by Harry M. Collins, Trevor Pinch, Harry Collins

Book Overview

A creature of Jewish mythology, a golem is an animated being made by man from clay and water who knows neither his own strength nor the extent of his ignorance. Like science and technology, the subjects of Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch's previous volumes, medicine is also a golem, and this Dr. Golem should not be blamed for its mistakes-they are, after all, our mistakes. The problem lies in its well-meaning clumsiness.

Dr. Golem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226113671
• ISBN13: 9780226113678
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 5.2"